Re: [lojban] Re: Initial impression

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And the apostrophe represents an omission,
>
> If it's any consolation, many of the apostrophes in Lojban represent
> omission.  For instance "nanca" has the combining form "na'a" (as in
> "cabna'a", this year), with an apostrophe in place of "nc".

Also, the possessive ending -'s in English does not represent an
omission, and in fact derives from an older genitive ending -s written
sans-apostrophe.

> We've had various scripts invented in the past few years, it's been
> fun.  None have caught on yet in any big way, just a few posts here
> and there to the Jbotcan, but it's always possible.

The Cyrillic orthography is official enough for a writeup in the CLL,
if memory serves, and I borrow its L for my main Lojban calligraphic
hand so it can't be mistaken for (dotless) i.

 - mihe kreig daniyl