Re: [lojban] la .alis.

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

Amazing as it may seem, Lojban, as a language, is a spoken object.  Since there are few people who would claim that they actually speak it (and even fewer who could back up that claim in a face-to-face) , for most Lojbanist Lojban exists as a written object.  Thus, *how* Lojban is written takes on many of the aspects that would occur in a normal language about how it was spoken -- with favored dialects and accents and so on.  And, as in most cases where snobbery is an issue, discussion can get to be rather intense -- and off topic and off courtesy.  The only requirement for a writing system for Lojban is that there be a written-spoken isomorphism; what that isomorphism is doesn't really matter (as witness  the range of variations already accepted).  A Lojban writing system with proper names capitalized and the first functional word of each sentence similarly, would still be an adequate writing system, though with a slightly more complex isomorphism (after all G and g stand for the same sound), and if we threw in a few punctuation marks proper (commas for subordinate clauses, say, question marks, and quotes of one sort or another), an isomorphism would still hold (though again a slightly more complex one).  And some clarity might occasionally be gained.  And some elegance or whatever lost. 

But don't let this opportunity go by by burying it under a mass of trivial objections, that have nothing to do with Lojban per se.

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