[lojban] Re: acronyms take priority (Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals . . .)

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:13:53AM -0000, la_okus wrote:
> Furthermore, acronyms need the capital letters more than stressed
> names do. Acutes are a pain to type, but stressed names will almost
> certainly not be as common as acronyms.

That *must* be a joke.

I can neither type nor see accented characters in my setup.  "a pain"
simply doesn't cover it.  Lojban sticks to pure ASCII for good reasons,
and any changes to that will be made only over my rotting corpse.

> BTW, hexadecimals were mentioned on the wiki. Since they hardly ever
> appear in normal prose, probably only the guys of the math end will
> ever care about it (does li ABC = li abubycy or li daufeigai?).

It doesn't mean *anything* in standard Lojban, because ABC is a
one-syllable cmene than doesn't lex (at least I don't think it does).

The acronym convention is not standard.  I was commenting on a problem
it causes for interest's sake only.

For the record: I *strongly* prefer capitalizing the whole syllable if
we're going to go the character-modification route.

If it was my language to re-write, I'd use some form of parenthising,
such as pa<ris>.  Has the advantage of losing something on the order of
21 symbols from the language.  But it's not my language to re-write, and
it never will be, and there you are.

-Robin

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