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

[Arnt Richard Johansen <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

First of all: write whichever way you want, but I won't be happy about any
*official* change of the language, unless it brings vast improvements.
Your proposal, as it appears, does not.

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> 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.

1. Only to skami prenu like us would it occur that C and c are different
symbols. :^)

2. Since when did this become a contest about using the fewest possible
symbols?

> [Suggestions:]
>
> ju!liet.bin!oc. or juli!et.bino!c. or whatever.

I'm sorry, Robin, but I find this incredibly hard to read. Re the first
example, I can't decide if it's JUliet, juLIET, or juLIet.

> Whomever wishes to can feel free to make a wiki page out of this.

Wikiists may want to look at the bottom of this page, after hearding 5:
<URL:http://arj.nvg.org/lojban/orthography.html>, I rewrote a piece into
the orthography I would have chosen, if the language were my own private
plaything. But I still think that mucking around with the orthography is a
very bad idea. Consider the effects the Great Rafsi Reallocation of 1993
had on older texts, and then consider what an orthography change would
lead to.

Scary, I tell you.

-- 
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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