From phma@oltronics.net Mon Jun 11 05:04:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 12:04:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 14352 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 12:04:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 12:04:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.22) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 12:04:00 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6E0183C6B3; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:42:22 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] le jbozgi be la'o Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:37:05 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106110742210H.01000@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7798 On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, John Cowan wrote: >Pierre Abbat scripsit: > >> The proper way to name notes, I think, is with letterals. > >The proper way to name things is with names. Invent a convention which >involves the appropriate vowels and ends with a consonant. Of course, >you can't prevent people from using these names for something else. But a melody is spelled as a sequence of notes, so letterals are more appropriate. If we need to talk about a single note, we can use "me'o". We can also have cmene for them - "do re mi" and "C D E" exist side by side. >But yes, if you want to copy the Western conventions, you can use >letterals A-G and some experimental cmavo meaning "sharp" and "flat". or "bemol.bu", "bekar.bu", "di'ez.bu" phma