From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Oct 17 04:07:11 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mz77t-0001Ke-Hd for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:07:10 -0700 Received: from 128-177-28-49.ip.openhosting.com ([128.177.28.49] helo=oh-www1.lojban.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mz77k-0001JP-NH for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:07:08 -0700 Received: from www-data by oh-www1.lojban.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mz6go-00073T-Ul for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:39:12 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Alternate writing systems? X-PHP-Script: www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-view_forum.php for 220.239.240.232 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "mitchells00" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:39:10 -0400 X-archive-position: 16342 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojban-out@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Alternate writing systems? Author: mitchells00 Hi, I've recently discovered Lojban so I can't speak a word of it, but I was thinking after reading the description about the aim of the language is to be culturally neutral, wouldn't it make sense for the simplistic-yet-elegant artificial language to have a simplistic-yet-elegant artificial writing system? Keeping the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets as learning aids (like Pinyin). The best candidate I've come across for this role would have to be Elian Script: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/elianscript.htm and http://www.ccelian.com/concepca.html I think it would be the best choice because of the simplistic way it is formed, how it is unique to any other alphabet/abjad, it's artificial, it can be written in any direction and still be understood (allowing for more cultural differences) and is, in my opinion, quite nice to look at. Of course you could rearrange the script's alphabet to anyway one would like (some standardisation in that process would be nice) for example the vowels and auxiliary characters are on the first grid, while the second and third are used for consonants? Anyone else know of any others that might be suitable? Please post them! Of course this is only a thought, and I would appreciate your feedback and opinions. :) Mitchells00 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.