[lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one.

["Philip Newton" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 15 May 2003 at 17:20, Nick Nicholas wrote:

> 'Nother vote for accents.

What about diphthongs? (Especially since Lojban has both rising and 
falling diphthongs.)

Accent both vowels? the stronger one? the first one?

For example, a place near here is Eißendorf - AIsendorf. (with the 
falling diphthong 'ai'); would that turn into áisendorf or aísendorf or 
áísendorf?

Assuming Dubois is diBUAS. (with the rising diphthong 'ua') - is that 
dibúás? dibúas? dibuás?

(I'd prefer that if one vowel is marked, it be the stronger one [or 
whatever the term is], so áisendorf, dibuás.)

I suppose one could be silly and use circumflex for single vowels and 
acute-grave (which looks a little like a circumflex) for diphthongs... 
so mûstafas kemâl but áìsendorf and dibúàs.

Or, since Unicode was mentioned, we could be really silly and use 
U+0303 COMBINING TILDE for a single vowel and U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE 
TILDE (which goes over two letters) for diphthongs....

mu'o mi'e .filip. noi na'e djuno ledu'u makau cu xagrai
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