[lojban-beginners] Re: Orthography

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:55:12PM -0600, Danny wrote:
> Is there much of a push for alternative scripts for Lojban? I have
> been particularly interested in learning about using Tengwar
> instead of the more traditional Latin script.

Tengwar is very pretty, and pretty unusable.  It's too self-similar;
a tiny slip of the pen and you can't tell if a character is a p, c,
r or what.  Which would be fine if it was only a few characters, but
*every* tengwar in the base set has at least one or two other
characters it is almost identical to.

-Robin

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