Re: [lojban] Scripts for Lojban

[Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Li wrote:

> coi rodo;
>      I've been ghosting on this list, for a while, but wanted to make 
> a suggestion, regarding a writing system for lojban. I noted that 
> Tengwar was suggested, at one point, but I would like to offer 12480, 
> as an alternative. Check out this site: 
> http://www.ecclemony.tekpc.net/12480.html for more information.
> 
> mi'o mi'e lylan

The background of 12480 glyphs looks cool, though the gradient effect is 
somewhat spoiled because my window size differs from that of the tiled 
image, but I couldn't see any of the content because it's in Macromedia 
Flash with no alternative content.  You might be interested in my essay:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/documents/webrant.html

On a semi-related point, I had a fictional character who, after a traffic
accident, was minus one arm and had brain damage which messed up hearing
and voice but spared vision to some degree.  She was going to speak Lojban
(actually -gua!spi, but the issues are the same) with custom one-handed
handsigns.  I figured out that she could get away with 12 bits per handsign
(4096 possibilities, no redundancy): knuckle and phalange bends, and four
positions of wrist rotation.  For reasons that are made clear in the story,
she has great trouble with English letters, but could manage to do
comb-like glyphs representing the handsigns.

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