From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed May 14 17:15:52 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 15 May 2003 00:15:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 83823 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 00:15:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 May 2003 00:15:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 May 2003 00:15:52 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19G6PY-0002rm-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:52 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19G6PR-0002rR-00; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:45 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19G6PC-0002rG-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:30 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:15:30 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one. Message-ID: <20030515001530.GV3216@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030514214459.GI3216@digitalkingdom.org> <5.2.0.9.0.20030514200633.03c923e0@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030514200633.03c923e0@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-archive-position: 5263 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 19741 On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:10:30PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > At 03:58 PM 5/14/03 -0700, Jorge "Llamb?as" wrote: > >la camgusmis cusku di'e > >> I mean, seriously. The language adds, what, 23 symbols?, just to > >> represent syllabic stress. It's ridiculous. > > > >I only use five: A, E, I, O and U. > > I find your approach acceptable. I don't much like a separate > character like exclamation point. One character, one sound is the > current standard, and no sort of extraneous punctuation that is > not a representation of a sound has caught on for Lojban Uuuhhh, if a comma seperating a syllable is a sound, then syllabic emphasis most certainly is. -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