Re: RE: Re[2]: Dr. James Cooke Brown

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@apocalypse.org>]

At 02:23 PM 2/18/00 -0500, you wrote:
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>

>Incidentally, the latter discussion points out the one problem with the
>"hoa" and "xo'a" introducers of the other language/dialect - while the two
>words look different in print, in speech they would likely be heard as the
>same word in either version, and thus be ineffective at indicating a change
>in dialect.  Indeed, in our alternate orthography originally established to
>make rapprochement based on Lojban more attractive to the TLI Loglan
>community, the alternate orthography form of "xo'a" is exactly "hoa".
>
>lojbab

Why, Bob? Couldn't one treat them as _toggles_ rather than as indicators of 
a particular language? In other words, whenever you hear hoa/xo'a, you 
switch to the other dialect. IMHO, this would only be a problem if

1) Your listener did not already know which dialect you were speaking 
(unlikely), or

2) There were more than two dialects of Loglan/Lojban.

Ron H-E


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