From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Sat Feb 10 09:47:42 1996 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA09053 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 09:47:40 -0500 Message-Id: <199602101447.JAA09053@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id D94E8930 ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 9:15:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 14:14:33 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: loglan rapprochement orthography X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1084 > >> In short: names and ".i" are capitalized, word-final pauses are written > >> as commas, word-initial pauses are either not marked or are marked by > >> adding a comma to the previous word, syllabic r l m n are doubled, /x/ > >> is written as "h", /au/ is written as "ao", apostrophes are replaced by > >> commas (which need not be written unless ambiguity would result, viz. > >> a,i e,i o,i a,o always; i,a i,e i,i i,o i,u u,a u,e u,i u,o u,u in UIs, > >> names, and fu'ivla). > If you are considering using it - fine - just do so in whole cloth, > not taking only those parts you like, which renders its potential > value as an alternate *standard* useless. Can one mix the two standards? E.g. use "ao" rather than "au", but "x" rather than "x"? Syllabic r l m n only occurs in cmevla and fuivla, right? On the whole I prefer this standard to the standard standard, but I'm a bit worried by "ao" - that's more than a matter of orthography, for it appears to be saying "here is a /o/" where the standard standard says "here is a /u/". coo, mie and