[lojban] Re: (no subject)/Borges

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

One time for writing ASL, it was Labonotation and Stokoe's (that is almost surely not spelled
right) alphabetic handcode.  That one fell through, I think, as have most since -- at lweast in
terms of acceptance by anyone who looks official.  (the guy who ran the Language Creation
Conference last spring is working on yet another version -- this for his own sign language, of
course.)
--- Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> > Arika Okrent wrote:
> >> example, the speaker of Guugu Yimidhirr has no way to express his
> >> particular metaphysics in Loglan because Loglan spatial reference is
> >> defined with respect to the speaker, and not, as in his own language,
> >> with respect to an absolute reference frame.
> > 
> > 
> > I won't pretend to know that language, but I suspect that if someone 
> > figured out how it worked, we would find a way to express it in Lojban 
> > (we would need to ask pc, who was our expert on strange tense systems, 
> > if it was already considered).
> 
> There's already a link to the future article about that language - look 
> at [[kanguru]]. Want to write it?
> 
> > The real test might be if someone tries to express all of the features 
> > and assumptions of sign language into Lojban.  This was something that 
> > came up once (I'm assuming it wasn't you - the person, whose name I 
> > can't remember, but s/he was especially interested written 
> > transcriptions of sign language, I think based on choreography notation 
> > - seemed to think Lojban could meet the challenge, if in no other way by 
> > coming up with verbal representations of written sign language).  You 
> > may be in a better position to evaluate, having examined sign language 
> > linguistically.
> 
> Are you thinking of Sign Writing / Sutton Movement Writing?
> 
> phma
> 
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