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Re: [lojban] la .alis.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Michael Everson
<michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2010, at 20:27, MorphemeAddict wrote:
>
>> Arggh. Why not print Yiddish in the Yiddish alphabet? I'm always disappointed to find Yiddish in transliteration.
>
> The market for Yiddish in Hebrew script is a lot smaller than once it was; the market for Yiddish in Latin script is much bigger indeed, including German speakers, linguists, and so on.
>
  I second stevo.  I can't make heads or tales of the Latin
transliteration (not to mention that you cause homophones to know be
homonyms as well), but I can understand the Yiddish in Yiddish, and it
looks a lot prettier, IMHO.  (Which there again, goes to your purpose
in doing your project, and where it clashes with the old guard of
lojbanists.  Are you writing it in Latin to look pretty, or to be
correct, or both?  Clearly, the Yiddish in Latin isn't "correct" in
any meaningful sense (Sure, one transliterates short excerpts of stuff
in otherwise surrounding English text, for pragmatic reasons, but I
don't think that's an excuse to do an entire book that way).  So if
you are just interested in doing Alice in Latin alphabets, regardless
of of language why don't you (warning -- the following is not a straw
man, since you say you don't believe in them anyhow  :-)  Simply print
a version in "gibberish", which a mathematical algortihm to use
reasonable word and sentence lengths, and perhaps reasonable
consonant/vowel sequencing.   (Gee, I'm glad toady is April 1st, so I
can say this stuff adn not be taken too seriously, but that is exactly
the kind of vibe I get from you when you dig in your heels about
issues that the linguistic community feels are nonnegotiable points)
               --gejyspa

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