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[lojban] Re: Lojban alphabets
Dmitry wrote:
Jorge Llambías wrote:
Some thoughts on a featural alphabet for Lojban:
1- In principle, I like it as an idea. In practice, I don't see the
community
of Lojbanists adopting one in the short term, simply because it would
be too impractical to do so. This could actually be a good thing, as it
Actually, I decided to restrain from this alphabet discussion, because
it is not really related to Lojban. (In addition to that, reading such
wordy letters in English makes me sleepy ^_^).
No worries. Writing them was no picnic either. I didn't expect to have
a significant audience following after a while.
Finally, that turned to be impossible. (Will shortage. Should meditate
more).
:-D I can relate. I came sorely close to will shortage myself.
Let me point out one more problem with strict phonetic alphabet (whether
it featural or not).
Lojban allows a lot of freedom in pronunciation. Lerfu describes not the
specific sound, but set of sounds, that are thought to be similar. And
it is not a problem - it is essential feature of language, making it
easier.
With strict phonetic alphabet we should either device uniform
pronunciation, or allow different variants of writing the same word.
Both are problematic.
Yes, agreed on all points.
PS Eww, I should better learn more gismu instead of continuing offtopic
discussion...
And the bit that makes my post more than just a me-too:
You think this thread is offtopic for this mailing list... do you know
of a better mailing list that might host it?
mi'e .xuis.
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