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Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography.  Yes, another one.
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Or with accented vowels, like alternatives at the bottom of the 
following pages:
- http://jerome.desquilbet.org/pages/166/
- http://jerome.desquilbet.org/pages/167/
Jérôme.

Le mercredi, 14 mai 2003, à 23:44 Europe/Paris, Robin Lee Powell a 
écrit :

> So, a lot of people are bothered by the ' in lojban text.  That's
> easy to fix, of course: use "h" if you want.  Since "h" isn't used,
> we can always transform from the one to the other at will.
>
> However, the thing about the Lojban orthography that most bothers
> *me* is capital letters.
>
> I mean, seriously.  The language adds, what, 23 symbols?, just to
> represent syllabic stress.  It's ridiculous.
>
> My proposal is that syllabic stress be marked by a single character
> before or during the syllable to be stressed.  I don't care what
> character is used, but I'm going to suggest ! as a starting point.
>
> Examples, stolen from
> http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less1names.html
>
> .IBraxim. becomes:
>
> .!ibraxim. or .i!braxim. instead of
>
> juLIET.binOC. becomes:
>
> ju!liet.bin!oc. or juli!et.bino!c. or whatever.
>
> MUStafas.keMAL. becomes:
>
> !mustafas.ke!mal.
>
> (shouldn't that be "MUSTafas" anyways?).
>
> Note that despite allowing the character to appear within the
> syllable (as that is clearly unambiguous), I don't think that's
> actually a good idea: putting it at the front gives the reader
> warning.
>
> Comments?
>
> Whomever wishes to can feel free to make a wiki page out of this.
>
> -Robin
>
> -- 
> Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/  ***   I'm a *male* Robin.
> "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me"
> -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org
> http://www.lojban.org/             ***              .i cimo'o prali .ui
>
>
>