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[lojban] Re: Nth letter of the alphabet
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- Subject: [lojban] Re: Nth letter of the alphabet
- From: "Brett Williams" <mungojelly@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:42:26 -0400
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On 4/26/08, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
When numbering the letters of the Lojban alphabet, what number is assigned
to "a"? Do we start "y'y, abu, by", or "y'y, slaka bu, denpa bu, abu"?
I agree with the other posters that ASCII is officially unofficial. (And some other sort would need some damn good explanation in order to justify making us write custom alphabetizing code from now until the end of time, wouldn't it?!) If I was "numbering" them as in calling them "lo (whatever)moi lerfu", it would seem much more reasonable to me to call the first one "pamoi" and not "nomoi", whatever that means. :)
ni'o ta'o zo'o
Last night on #ninpre I suggested we could add Q into Lojban as a silent letter. You could insert it anywhere you wanted to make words look stylish, like "cilreq" or "cusqku", without changing the way they sound.
mu'o mi'e .bret.