From xeubie@hotmail.com Wed May 05 06:29:24 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: xeubie@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 99646 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 13:29:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 May 2004 13:29:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n16.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.71) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 May 2004 13:29:23 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.133] by n16.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 May 2004 13:29:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:29:11 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20040501125134.GA1255@fysh.org> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 693 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.218.66.71 From: "la_okus" X-Originating-IP: 69.162.47.2 Subject: Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=170795535 X-Yahoo-Profile: la_okus X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22121 --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Zefram wrote: > I'd much prefer an orthography using a single extra mark (say, "^") > to indicate stress where necessary, just as we have a single extra mark > (",") to indicate syllable breaks. > > -zefram Good idea. This would probably be even better than using acutes, because I don't believe there are any acutes for r or l, which we would need. And since its ASCII, RLP should be happy too :-) So tumultuous: tyml^tcu,ys and Bernard: la brna^rd. A different character might be better for asthetic reasons, but the concept is there. I don't think we should wait for official declaration -- let usage decide! okus