Re: [lojban] Re: Alphabet proposal one.

[Betsemes <betsemes@gmail.com>]

I have been following all of this about featural alphabets for Lojban
with interest, but I'm afraid that as a somehow still a beginner, I'm
too overwhelmed with the hazards of learning vocabulary to worry on
learning a new alphabet. It might be interesting and easy to learn,
maybe, but I tend to think it would be a very low priority in my
learning schedule.

About cultural neutrality, I think as a non linguist that the position
of Jorge, Robin and Theodore matches what I would think of cultural
neutrality, just use any alphabet that suits you best. But this leads
me to think as a computer programmer in terms of portability. If you
want to get your message across, you must write in an intelligible
way, so that your audience can understand you. So, by such a point of
view, I see the value of having an official alphabet for Lojban.

This leads me to a question. How is the latin alphabet culturally
biased? Is it just because it comes from languages that comes from
Latin or is it because some other reason?