So, a lot of people are bothered by the ' in lojban text. That's
easy to fix, of course: use "h" if you want. Since "h" isn't used,
we can always transform from the one to the other at will.
However, the thing about the Lojban orthography that most bothers
*me* is capital letters.
I mean, seriously. The language adds, what, 23 symbols?, just to
represent syllabic stress. It's ridiculous.
My proposal is that syllabic stress be marked by a single character
before or during the syllable to be stressed. I don't care what
character is used, but I'm going to suggest ! as a starting point.
Examples, stolen from
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less1names.html
.IBraxim. becomes:
.!ibraxim. or .i!braxim. instead of
juLIET.binOC. becomes:
ju!liet.bin!oc. or juli!et.bino!c. or whatever.
MUStafas.keMAL. becomes:
!mustafas.ke!mal.
(shouldn't that be "MUSTafas" anyways?).
Note that despite allowing the character to appear within the
syllable (as that is clearly unambiguous), I don't think that's
actually a good idea: putting it at the front gives the reader
warning.
Comments?
Whomever wishes to can feel free to make a wiki page out of this.
-Robin
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