On 7/11/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
That's not exactly how those work. You could perhaps write instead of
{ge'o by} the Greek character beta, in the same way that you can write "3"
instead of the full word {ci}, or in the way some of us sometimes will
write "T" instead of the full word {ty}. But the shifts {ru'o}, {ge'o}, {je'o}
and {lo'a} don't tell you a thing about how to write a text. A mathematical
text that includes some greek letters in a formula will use the words
{ge'o by} as part of the formula. But the text will be normally written fully
with Latin letters. Or indeed the same text could be written fully using
the Cyrillic alphabet. The shifts don't tell anyone anything about how to
write the text.
For those words to do what you suggest they should have a very different
grammar. They should be in selma'o UI or such, not be part of lerfu strings.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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