From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Jul 04 07:40:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 33656 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2006 14:25:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.67.33) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jul 2006 14:25:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2006 14:25:13 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxlEF-00045G-Pj for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:46:15 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxlDf-00044Z-HT; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:45:40 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxlDD-00044I-2s for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:45:11 -0700 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.203]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxlDB-000448-4x for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:45:10 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 40so1009860nzk for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.55.2 with SMTP id d2mr2559205nza; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ( [70.224.74.45]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 10sm3610583nzo.2006.07.04.06.45.07; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44AA7030.4020304@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:42:08 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <44A54397.8000306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44A54397.8000306@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 11899 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: hobyrne@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Hugh O'Byrne From: Hugh O'Byrne Reply-To: hobyrne@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: Alphabet X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=VLqGZYDpVUPmVtu9G2PU3q3FeetfLs0YqxP_Olh6pXrO1dHYYw X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 26325 Hugh O'Byrne wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I adore Lojban. The biggest weakness it has, IMHO, is its alphabet. Ooh. I thought I'd mentioned it already, but maybe I haven't. Jay F. Kominek mentions that ASCII characters were a big consideration in choosing the Lojban alphabet. This is a very sensible, pragmatic point. It has *huge* value, in the short-term. If I'm designing a system with a lifetime of 20 or 50 years, there's no doubt *I* would choose ASCII too. I'm thinking *long*-term. How long term? See the end of Message-ID:<44A9DF38.7030108@gmail.com>. (That should be enough to identify the post individually, right?) mi'e .xius. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.