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[lojban] Re: Orthography



--- Christopher Zervic <zervic@gmail.com> wrote:

> There already exists a standard notation for
> the segments of the
> seven-segment display (7SD), (which is really
> what we are talking
> about, not necessarily LED, LCD or even
> anything illuminated or
> electronic):
> 
> A (top)
> B (upper right)
> C (lower right)
> D (bottom)
> E (lower left)
> F (upper left)
> G (middle)
> and the '8th segment' = DP (decimal point)
> 
> 1 = BC
> 2 = ABDEG
> 3 = ABCDG
> 4 = BCFG
> 5 = ACDFG
> 6 = ACDEFG
> 7 = ABC
> 8 = ABCDEFG
> 9 = ABCDFG
> 0 = ABCDEF
> 
> So far I like what I read in this thread,
> although it remains yet to
> see whether it proves to be practical, since
> Lojban already has
> perfect orthographic mapping. Nevertheless the
> suggested alphabet
> could draw inspiration from the Shaw Alphabet
> (q.v.), and be practical
> for English as well.

Yeah, there is no real need for yet another way
of writing Lojban, even a another way that is
only for Lojban.  People have shown how to write
Lojban in just about every known alphabet (I
don't recall a cuneiform version but I expect it
is out there somewhere) and it at least three
more or less developed novel alphabets.  No
advantages over the latin alphabet we use has
been demonstrated.  But they are intersting
design projects in their own right.
Sorry about misremembering the order of segments
in 7-segment displays.  I think that my ordering
came from the ordering in 11- and 15-segment
displays (roughly contemporay with 7 and 14 and
16 and, even more than they obliterated by 7-pin
dot matrices).  Those displays had either xs in
each small box or a diamond in the whole (or in
each box for the 15) and the xs were each either
two segments or four.  If you drop those box
fillers out the remaining seven lines were -- I
am pretty damned sure -- ordered as I gave it.
Below are (for the record) the equivalences
between the official and this muddled version (I
put the binarization of the official version in
parentheses).

1 D (8)                  A (64) 64
2 E (4)                  AB (96) 96
3 DE (12)                ABC (112) 100
4 C (16)  


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