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[lojban] Re: New, more Lojbanic Lojban orthography



On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 18:51, Roman Naumann <eldrikdo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree. Lojban in the Latin alphabet looks ugly, like some bash programming
> language somewhat.

Oh my. I don't think Lojban in latin looks wonderful or anything, but
seriously? Compared to bash, Lojban in latin is like a Van Gogh
painting.

> In addition to the beauty aspect, I find it very annoying that I got used to
> certain sounds of latin glyphs. I habitually confuse the "s" with the "z",

The sounds are the same in Lojban as in English, so I never had a
problem, but...

> as they are that that way in German, or the "c" and "k"..

I learned probably a couple hundred words in Lojban before realizing
that "c" wasn't pronounced like either "k" or "s". It took me a *long*
time to unlearn all that. You have to unlearn the individual words
separately, too.

Chris Capel
-- 
"What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it
like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?"
-- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)


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