[lojban] Re: Original orthography draft now online for...

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

those who are coming from a non-Roman-alphabet background, if I had to
learn a whole new alphabet, I never would have looked into lojban.
                --gejyspa
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:11 PM, David Cortesi <davecortesi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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