From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Jul 11 13:40:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 2469 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2006 20:25:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m26.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Jul 2006 20:25:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2006 20:25:50 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0On0-0000gY-JO for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:25:02 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0OmP-0000f3-9N; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:24:28 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0Oly-0000eT-Ic for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:58 -0700 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.183]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0Olx-0000eI-JL for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:58 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so3969450pyd for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.99.14 with SMTP id b14mr7115631pym; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.39.7 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:23:56 -0600 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44AD673B.7060501@gmail.com> <925d17560607061651p19623e56x7c188368533f9c48@mail.gmail.com> <20060706235433.GJ18983@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <2d3df92a0607081047i5ba3e2b5ucf79eaf3bed81d4a@mail.gmail.com> <44B21C12.5060806@bilkent.edu.tr> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 12111 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: maxim.katcharov@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: "Maxim Katcharov" From: "Maxim Katcharov" Reply-To: maxim.katcharov@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: Alphabet proposal one. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=KxxupG_N9Fk7KE0hYJKqnN5c4J9qjFh_bdVR86HtS2Y6n1M4WQ X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 26535 On 7/11/06, Matt Arnold wrote: > On 7/10/06, Maxim Katcharov wrote: > > On 7/10/06, robin wrote: > > > > Yet each > > of you want to I suppose 'diversify' the language by not specifying an > > official alphabet? I'm confused, and think that I may have missed > > something here. > > > This has already been done. Since the beginning of the language, even > though the Latin alphabet was the official standard, it was > permissable to transcribe into Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Greek > character sets. They even created words for it. The words {ru'o} > {ge'o} {je'o} and {lo'a} are a set of verbal "shift keys". They mean > to dictate to a computer or amanuensis that they should shift > letterals to Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Lojban (Latin) > character sets respectively. > > -epkat > Sigh/resignation. At least they're standardized and limited, which means that all we really need is a simple replacement program. I'm glad for that, but I would have preferred unity, even if it is under the Latin flag. Is there a page that lists the letterals? 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.