[lojban] con-script for Lojban

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 4/11/2008 04:22:39 AM Central Daylight Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:11 AM, David Cortesi <davecortesi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm sorry, but I just do not get it. 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?
> A completely valid point. As you said, it's been fun to work on just
> as a project, so it doesn't really need any further justification.
> But even aside from that, the 'familiar' letters are only familiar for
> those who are raised speaking a languages which is written with a
> latin alphabet. 


I disagree.  Even people whose language uses a non-Latin/English form of writing are still familiar with the Latin/English alphabet, because many sciences and mathematics use those letters as international symbols.

stevo