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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