Re: [lojban] la .alis.

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

On 29 Mar 2010, at 17:27, Leo Molas wrote:

>>> In my view, just pouring a whole mess of lower-case letters with no punctuation into my Alice template would not result in "fine Latin typography".
>> 
>> Neither do I. I, unlike you, consider that a good thing. I don't
>> /want/ Lojban written with "fine Latin typography". 
> 
> I think this is a good point in all of this. Lojban is not written in Latin typography;

Standard Lojban orthography makes use of the Latin script.

The Latin script is possessed of a long tradition of typographic conventions.

These two things are distinct. You cannot say that a language is "written in a typography". That makes no sense.

> Lojban has a typogrphy that uses Latin a part of its alphabet and a part of its punctuation, using it in another way. Lojban uses this alphabet, to be compatible with everyone's keyboard; not with Latin typography.

With all due respect, capital letters and punctuation like , . ; : ' " « » ( ) [ ] { } are available with everybody's keyboard.

Loglan was devised in 1955 when there were only typewriters (unless you could afford a Pegasus or something), and modulo « » on French typewriters all of those characters were available then, too.

Michael

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