From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jun 20 08:01:11 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DkNln-0002Di-1M for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:01:03 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1DkNlT-0002DX-Ev for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:01:02 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080D7947C5 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:00:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:00:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban neography In-Reply-To: <200506201448.j5KEmNTd012798@mole.e-mol.com> Message-ID: References: <1119217594.8641.7.camel@localhost> <200506201344.j5KDiLTd003997@mole.e-mol.com> <200506201448.j5KEmNTd012798@mole.e-mol.com> X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10218 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Matt, please don't top post. On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Matt Arnold wrote: > I didn't keep optional things in mind. However, since people will want > to use Lojbanized names with irregular stress, and talk about {selma'o}, > an alternate character set analogous to capitals will be needed. As for > the comma syllable separator, I've never seen it used and it seems > utterly unnecessary to me. These could be expansion projects but not > very high priority personally. No, I mean, since you use a space as a required pause, not as a word separator, how do you indicate *obligatory* stress? Ie, if you write .ireblabislilumilasnadactinoda how can you tell which of the following it is? .i re blabi slilu mi lasna dacti noda .i rebla bisli lu mi la snada ctino da -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Learn languages! The more languages you know, the more incomprehensible you can get.