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[lojban] Re: Original orthography draft now online for...
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- Subject: [lojban] Re: Original orthography draft now online for...
- From: "David Cortesi" <davecortesi@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:10 -0700
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I'm sorry, but I just do not get it.
I'm sure that creating a consistent orthography is a fascinatin' and
absorbing artistic project. But what in the world is the sense of
taking a language whose syntax is by designed unlike any other, and
whose vocabulary is already a challenge to learn using familiar
letters for (mostly) familiar sounds, and making it even MORE arcane
by writing those letters in a completely new script?
Churchill said of Russia, "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery,
inside an enigma."
Well, this orthography would be the enigma cloak for the riddle of
lojban vocabulary wrapped in the mystery of lojban syntax.
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