Re: [lojban] la .alis.

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
> To: lojban@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Thu, April 1, 2010 12:18:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [lojban] la .alis.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Jonathan Jones <> ymailto="mailto:eyeonus@gmail.com"; 
> href="mailto:eyeonus@gmail.com";>eyeonus@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Insofar as Lojban is concerned, 
> {la.mari,án.} and {la.mari,An.} are the same
> thing. {la.mari,An.} is 
> much more common, as "A" is easier to type. (On
> standard U.S. keyboard, 
> for instance, "A" is <shift>+a, "á" is <alt>+<numpad
> 
> 0,2,2,5>.)
>

 I'm surprised no one in this long thread has yet 
> mentioned the
convention that I use, indeed, the convention that the CLL 
> uses,
mari,AN.  Or has everyone just tacitly said, "Oh, this is ugly, 
> let's
just move on"?

Just because something is ugly for one person doesn't mean it's 
ugly for another.  I'm reminded of once being told that 
serif fonts are 'nicer', 'more pleasant' and 
'easier to read', and that it was scientifically proven.  Then it turned 
out that the research had been done in the USA, and that in Germany 
they prefer non-serif fonts!  What's 'pretty or 'ugly' is personal and 
cultural.  I think we should leave this subject alone until Chinese, 
Arabic and Tamil lojbanists have had a chance to comment.  Then 
if they all agree something looks 'ugly', we can change it.

totus


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