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RE: [lojban] My orthography beef: an explanation



Robin:
> The reason why I brought up the no-capitals orthography idea is that
> the CLL, and other sources, explicitely state that:
> 
>     Lojban uses a variant of the Latin (Roman) alphabet, consisting
>     of the following letters and symbols:
> 
> 
>     ' , . a b c d e f g i j k l m n o p r s t u v x y z
> 
>     omitting the letters ``h'', ``q'', and ``w''. 
> 
> when this is, in fact, patently false (I don't see G or A er E
> there!) 

There is of course a sense in which <a> and <A> are forms of the same 
letter, the sense in which the alphabet for English has 26 letters.

--And.