[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban neography

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

Matt Arnold wrote:
> coi rodo,
>     A couple of years ago I read of Eric S. Raymond's Tengwar orthography for Lojban (http://www.catb.org/~esr/tengwar/lojban-tengwar.html) and it got me thinking about Lojban alphabets. I had an idea which I've been working on for a couple of years, to design an alphabet along certain principles:
> 1. Each word would be written without the pen leaving the page; no dotting i's or crossing t's. A gap in the line would represent the period character, which is a pause.

The problem here is that it is actually harder to write in a completely 
cursive style - the breaks that occur in the middle of words when 
writing with the Latin alphabet actually serve a useful purpose.

Other than that, it's a nice idea. You need to simplify "x", though, as 
it's a very common sound in Lojban, and pentagrams take a lot of pen 
strokes.  In terms of ease of writing, you could borrow some ideas from 
Gregg shorthand, perhaps.

robin.tr

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Robin Turner
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