right on many points, my friend. welcome to Lojban, it is an amazing language. If you have good ideas for an improved orthography, design one. There have been several original orthographies produced, and more are always welcome until the community finds one they love.
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From: Klaus F. Abel <kfa@gmx.net>
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Sent: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 3:55 am
Subject: [lojban] Initial impression
Dear friends,
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5. The forced adding of an 's' (or at least any consonant, if I understand correctly) to transliterated names that end on a vocal comes across to me almost as an act of violence against a sacrosanct name, I find it disturbing at best. Yet again the 'q' seems the ideal fit for the purpose of fulfilling the rule that it must end on a consonant. It would not alter the sound of the spoken name, since it would remain silent as the glottal stop at the end of a word is not pronounced (hardly doable at all). (Could this possibly create ambiguity in spoken language?)
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Sincerely,
Klaus F. Abel
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