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



--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Robin Lee Powell <lojban-
out@l...> wrote:

> 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.

This argument has less shelf life than bread; ASCII will be long 
gone before your corpse has any chance to decompose.

> > 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).

I know that, I was speaking hypothetically. Hey, we're all in this 
for interest's sake.

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

Modifying only the vowel seems to be more true to the way it is 
really pronounced; the vowel is where the stress is.

> 
> 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.

I remember someone telling you this wasn't a race to get the 
least number of symbols :-P

okus