[lojban] Re: Alternate writing systems?

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

One of the real (but incompletely realized) advantages of the Latin alphabet over many a priori constructions is the marked difference of the forms of letters and hence of words.  To be sure, this is far from completely true but beats out a considerable number of other alphabetic (or syllabic) systems,  If we must make a new face for Lb (which we must not, by the way), lets start with what is already a way along the line.And, for the first time in Lojban, build in some redundancies.

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From: Seth <thirderivative@aol.com>
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Sent: Sat, October 17, 2009 12:13:00 PM
Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternate writing systems?

for practicality (ease of learning, ease of computer use), i think lojban should retain the roman alphabet, but i think that having its own orthography would be awesome. The several ones proposed have been impressive, but i like things even more computer/barcode-ish looking, since i think lojban could be the language of androids. something like this maybe http://www.omniglot.com/writing/12480.htm

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From: Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>

To: lojban-list@lojban.org

Sent: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 9:51 am

Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternate writing systems?

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:42 PM,  <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:


> In a message dated 10/17/2009 07:37:39 Eastern Daylight Time,


> carbon.evolve@gmail.com writes:


>>


>> The Elian script does look good, I wonder if there is any talk about


>> standardizing a lojban orthography.


>>


>


> I don't like the Elian script, and lojban orthography is already


> standardized.




I do like the Elian script but the lojban orthgraphy is already


standardized and there are so few people learning the language that


asking them to use a non-familiar seems not a good move to me.




That said, the best way to promote Elian script would be to typeset a


piece of lojban and send around for comments. I guess nothing will


change, but I love calligraphy! :)




remod






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