From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Sun May 18 16:01:25 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 18 May 2003 23:01:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 96860 invoked from network); 18 May 2003 23:01:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 May 2003 23:01:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 May 2003 23:01:22 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19HX9e-00010F-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 18 May 2003 16:01:22 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19HX8l-0000zt-00; Sun, 18 May 2003 16:00:27 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 18 May 2003 16:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lmsmtp03.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.113]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19HX8S-0000zO-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 18 May 2003 16:00:08 -0700 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-69-110.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.69.110]) by lmsmtp03.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7893CFCC for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 00:59:35 +0200 (MEST) To: Subject: [lojban] Re: My orthography beef: an explanation Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:59:35 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030518010137.GA3216@digitalkingdom.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-archive-position: 5331 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: "And Rosta" Reply-To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 19811 Robin: > The reason why I brought up the no-capitals orthography idea is that > the CLL, and other sources, explicitely state that: > > Lojban uses a variant of the Latin (Roman) alphabet, consisting > of the following letters and symbols: > > > ' , . a b c d e f g i j k l m n o p r s t u v x y z > > omitting the letters ``h'', ``q'', and ``w''. > > when this is, in fact, patently false (I don't see G or A er E > there!) There is of course a sense in which and are forms of the same letter, the sense in which the alphabet for English has 26 letters. --And.