Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:55:20PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2010, at 15:31, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >>> You want to use Gothic letters and what-not, fine. You
> >>> want to use special fonts, fine. Just don't mess with
> >>> the standard Lojban typographic conventions and we've
> >>> got no problems.
> >> 
> >> Except that the book is then a whole mess of lower-case
> >> letters with no punctuation.
> > 
> > Lojban is written in lower-case letters with no
> > punctuation. I don't see a problem.
> 
> OK. Fine. My goal is to treat Lojban not like an oddball,
> but as a full citizen of the community of languages which
> enjoy fine Latin typography.  Perhaps you do not see this
> as an interesting or valuable goal, but it is nevertheless
> the goal which I have. 
> 
> 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".

.i haven't studied lojban very much ,so take what i say with
a grain of salt   .however ,your objection to using standard
lojbanic convections is that they make it hard to
distinguish sentences and the like   .i suspect that
capitalization isn't the only method one could use to make
the separation clear ,and that with some thought ,you could
find a way that both looks good ,by whatever criteria ,and
would satisfy the lojban community   .for one thing ,as far
as i can tell ,punctuation isn't frowned upon ,it merely
follows different rules that natural languages ,and is
optional   .i would guess that no one would object to adding
punctuation to la alis. as long as it was conventional
*lojbanic* punctuation   .furthermore ,i would hope that
there are more typographical tools available to indicate
structure ,than just capitalization ,which does seem to be a
sore point ,and perhaps rightly so   .lojban isn't a natural
language ,and on some level it doesn't even have sentences
,it has something something analogous ,and has many of the
same functions ,but is different enough to deserve *not* to
be called a sentence


  Tom

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