[lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la camgusmis cusku di'e

> I mean, seriously.  The language adds, what, 23 symbols?, just to
> represent syllabic stress.  It's ridiculous.

I only use five: A, E, I, O and U.

> My proposal is that syllabic stress be marked by a single character
> before or during the syllable to be stressed.  I don't care what
> character is used, but I'm going to suggest ! as a starting point.

Syllable boundaries are not well defined in Lojban, so I would suggest
putting it always before the vowel to be stressed (not necessarily
immediately before, though).
 
> .IBraxim. becomes:
> 
> .!ibraxim. or .i!braxim. instead of 

The last one could be .iBRAxim.

> juLIET.binOC. becomes:
> 
> ju!liet.bin!oc. or juli!et.bino!c. or whatever.

Splitting the diphthong like that doesn't seem like a good idea,
it suggests juli,et to me.

> MUStafas.keMAL. becomes:
> 
> !mustafas.ke!mal.
> 
> (shouldn't that be "MUSTafas" anyways?).

Or MUstafas too. They are all allowed. I prefer mUstafas.

> Note that despite allowing the character to appear within the
> syllable (as that is clearly unambiguous), I don't think that's
> actually a good idea: putting it at the front gives the reader
> warning.
> 
> Comments?

I think it does look a little better than the capital letters.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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