Re: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea.

[Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>]

Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>> > Capitalizing the whole syllable doesn't look very nice anyway, 
>> 
>> In your opinion.
>
>In my opinion it looks horrible. I wonder if anyone really thinks
>it looks very nice.

I have a weak preference for capitalising the vowel alone over
capitalising the whole syllable.  Actually, I think both schemes look
quite awful, in addition to being horribly wasteful of characters.
We've got a whole extra 23 (or 5) letterals for a single purpose, namely
indicating stress on a syllable, which is only rarely required at all.
I'd much prefer an orthography using a single extra mark (say, "^")
to indicate stress where necessary, just as we have a single extra mark
(",") to indicate syllable breaks.

-zefram