From lojban+bncCK7Yk5CUCxCvisbwBBoEiowHIw@googlegroups.com Mon Jul 04 02:17:48 2011 Received: from mail-pv0-f189.google.com ([74.125.83.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QdfHl-0007N6-Na; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:47 -0700 Received: by pvc22 with SMTP id 22sf4648741pvc.16 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1w5yh0hxRsjkgE5ypKXD9NV2Z9pkD9HdYiytr64fGhE=; b=LPrvnJYGPoWecsB4uuzOcyKQxtD2Nda4GRWkvbtEoxBOdu77MD9FR5tBnJzbeNHqw3 6L/v/Pz1dPzrsdRtnND9OwcMqyo5i6KfbKAuGav0WQSw0M34KnE7FBID5zRmRJ+IQYCI HGAyLr8htnrefRo2AYi2MPfiNDahYQrYqT89Q= Received: by 10.142.144.12 with SMTP id r12mr547443wfd.14.1309771055101; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:35 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.68.37.105 with SMTP id x9ls1970707pbj.2.gmail; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.17.65 with SMTP id m1mr1369507pbd.69.1309771054329; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.17.65 with SMTP id m1mr1369506pbd.69.1309771054314; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pz0-f45.google.com (mail-pz0-f45.google.com [209.85.210.45]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v9si12274895pbc.2.2011.07.04.02.17.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdentato@gmail.com designates 209.85.210.45 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.210.45; Received: by pzk30 with SMTP id 30so972614pzk.32 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:34 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.12.101 with SMTP id x5mr7430910pbb.267.1309771054141; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.60.197 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 02:17:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201107040342.20416.phma@phma.optus.nu> References: <201107040342.20416.phma@phma.optus.nu> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:17:33 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Writing the accent instead of the capital letter From: Remo Dentato To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: rdentato@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdentato@gmail.com designates 209.85.210.45 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdentato@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I've been thinking about writing the stress with an accent instead of a > capital letter. I would be extremely in favor of this! I have personally always found a little bit disturbing the use of capital letters for marking the stressed syllable. I suspect there is some historical reason for that (I guess US typewriters had no accented letters at the time Lojban born :) ). Nowadays I think we could make good use of accents. Just compare {j=F2sefin} with {JOsefin} or {fil=ECp} with {filIP}. Our language is already ugly enough without having to mix lower and upper case. I would not care for which accent to use. I would go for the grave accent (=E0=E8=EC=F2=F9) because that's what Italian uses most but I don't = feel so strong about it. Up to the point I won't even be prescriptive on this: any accent would do. Hope you get enough people backing up your proposal. Remo --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegrou= ps.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= ?hl=3Den.