Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban neography

[Bruce Webber <brucewebber@fastmail.us>]

Hi Matt,

--On Monday, June 20, 2005 10:48 AM -0400 Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net> 
wrote:

>    I didn't keep optional things in mind. However, since people will want
> to use Lojbanized names with irregular stress, and talk about {selma'o},
> an alternate character set analogous to capitals will be needed. As for
> the comma syllable  separator, I've never seen it used and it seems
> utterly unnecessary to me. These could be expansion projects but not very
> high priority personally.    By the way, I'm currently working on
> arranging a MessyBoard (www.messyboard.org) for Lojbanists to use on
> things like this. -epkat

If you don't have spaces between words, then you need a way of indicating 
stress. (With spaces between words, the stress falls on the penultimate 
syllable by default, and does not have to be indicated.) Without stress 
indication the speech stream could be parsed in more than one way.

It would also be nice to allow for words to be denoted - perhaps a flat 
line on the baseline. That way the pen does not have to be lifted, but the 
letters would be grouped. That might also solve the stress denotation 
problem.

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Bruce Webber
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