[lojban] Re: Alphabet proposal one.

["Maxim Katcharov" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 7/11/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/06, Maxim Katcharov <maxim.katcharov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/10/06, robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr> wrote:
> >
> > Yet each
> > of you want to I suppose 'diversify' the language by not specifying an
> > official alphabet? I'm confused, and think that I may have missed
> > something here.
> >
> This has already been done. Since the beginning of the language, even
> though the Latin alphabet was the official standard, it was
> permissable to transcribe into Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Greek
> character sets. They even created words for it. The words {ru'o}
> {ge'o} {je'o} and {lo'a} are a set of verbal "shift keys". They mean
> to dictate to a computer or amanuensis that they should shift
> letterals to Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Lojban (Latin)
> character sets respectively.
>
> -epkat

Sigh/resignation. At least they're standardized and limited, which
means that all we really need is a simple replacement program. I'm
glad for that, but I would have preferred unity, even if it is under
the Latin flag. Is there a page that lists the letterals?


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