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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Michael Everson
<michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28 Mar 2010, at 15:14, Jorge Llambías wrote:
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>> Personally, I like to reserve capital letters for letter names, so "A" instead of "abu", "B" instead of "by", and so on, just like "1" can stand for "pa", "2" for "re" and so on. It would be interesting to see how the Alice text looks with that convention, given the use of letter names as pronouns,
>
> Well, the letters have names; I would assume that By, Ly, Fy, Sy, Ny would do as well as Ogham's Beith, Luis, Fearn, Sail, Nion.
By, Ly, Fy, Sy, Ny presents no real advantage over by, ly, fy, sy, ny,
just as Pa, Re, Ci, Vo, Mu, would present no real advantage over pa,
re, ci, vo, mu. The idea of using B, L, F, S, N is the same as for
using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. (And it's also quite standard in other languages,
after all we write "BPFK", not "Bee Pee Eff Kay".)
> On 28 Mar 2010, at 22:17, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
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>> Going through it *specifically* for that purpose has been on my to-do list since it was published. The main reason I haven't done it yet is that the BPFK needs to finish before I will even *know* what in xorban and what isn't.
>
> I ask again: is this a show-stopper? Is the language in this book Not Ready For Publication?
The only significant change I expect I would make today is replace all
LE gadri with "lo", but not making that change doesn't really make the
language as used wrong. Also, I notice that some cmavo are written
without a space between them, whereas today I would write the space.
Not a big deal, but you may want to adjust that. Spaces between cmavo
have always been optional, and the custom has varied with time, with
the tendency being towards preferring the spaced out forms.
Other than that, there's always room for improvement in any
translation, but on the whole I would say it is ready.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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