Re: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one.

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

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:10:30PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> At 03:58 PM 5/14/03 -0700, Jorge "Llamb?as" wrote:
> >la camgusmis cusku di'e
> >> I mean, seriously.  The language adds, what, 23 symbols?, just to
> >> represent syllabic stress.  It's ridiculous.
> >
> >I only use five: A, E, I, O and U.
> 
> I find your approach acceptable.  I don't much like a separate
> character like exclamation point.  One character, one sound is the
> current standard, and no sort of extraneous punctuation that is
> not a representation of a sound has caught on for Lojban

Uuuhhh, if a comma seperating a syllable is a sound, then syllabic
emphasis most certainly is.

-Robin

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