Re: [lojban] la .alis.

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

In the joy of contributing further to the going-on-60 year history of LoCCan typography, y'all seem to have missed the basic point:  someone is offering to publish a work in Lojban on a real press for a real public, something that comes to very few conlangs.  Jump at the opportunity, for goodness sakes!

As for the "changes" he is making in "Lojban typography", they fall well within the range of past approaches and have the rather clear advantage of making texts more easily readable (although ease has never been a long LoCCan suit).  If newbies end up using them, then rejoice in the newbies and lead them by local example back to the true shining path (or, possibly change to that way of doing tjings yourself).  Don't jump all over them for total trivia and watch them fade away.

On a non-trivial note, I see xorxes proposing to do away with all 'le' in laAlis.  'le' was one of JCB's really clever inventions, a thing of wide genuine use.  Even in its present rather attenuated form, it is still valuable. To replace it by 'lo', whatever that may be nowadays, would degade the language severely (the o0pposite replacement might be an improvement however -- at least we would know what we had).



      

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