Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 28 Mar 2010, at 20:29, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> I'll speak up (briefly, since it wasn't requested) for that side: I won't buy a book claiming to be Lojban that uses seriously non-Lojban-standard typographic conventions,

Fair enough. Does that mean you wouldn't buy such a book if it were in Tengwar? 

> and I will decry it to anyone who asks.

That seems mean-spirited. :-(

Ca'n't you enjoy a bit of fun? (Note how I wrote "ca'n't" there -- just as Carroll did.) Ca'n't you appreciate an exercise in typography using Victorian conventions for a Victorian book?

> There is an exception, however: I care very little about how stress is indicated.  Stress marking (specifically between using caps or using an accent mark) has been a long-standing point of largely non-acrimonious discussion; as far as I can tell, that's an issue on which the community is somewhat divided, but no-one really cares all that much.

So... you're flexible when you wish to be. Fair enough. :-)

> Contrast this with using captials to mark the beginning of sentences or proper names which, as And says, is very much not-OK to most Lojbanists.

Well, I'm certainly not the first person to take an interest in such a convention, according to the archives of this list. Sure, plenty of people don't care for it, but at the end of the day I'm not trying to do any harm.

Michael

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