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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 12:32:02 -0700
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From: cbogart@quetzal.com (Chris Bogart)
Subject: Re: CONLANG: Kanji (was: Asian-based langs?)
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I wrote:
>> I would
>> suggest having kanji for the root words but use the roman alphabet
>> for the structure words.

John Cowan writes:
>Maybe we could have a Hangul based on roman letters:  "pu" would be
>represented by a small "p" above a small "u", the whole taking up
>a standard hanzi-area.

For structure words that would work, although it means we would need special 
fonts for computers.  Would that work for names in Lojban, which can have 
arbitrary clumps of consonants?

>> There's also the problem that the affixes in compound words
>> in Lojban can have several forms; for example the root word for

>Perhaps a tie-mark (like a musical tie-mark) could be used to
>distinguish "jbopli" from "lojbo pilno"; 

Or use a space between them in the latter case -- would that make chinese 
readers gag too severely?