Re: [lojban] Lojban spelling alphabet

[Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com>]

> This has been done a few times before, including *in the CLL*:
>
> http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter17.html
> -- search for "radio"

Yeah, I knew about that one, and I obviously like the fact that it's
based on an international standard.  I just thought it would be nice
to have one that's more specifically suited to Lojban.

> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=vlaselyle'u

Didn't know about that one!  It's pretty similar to mine, but it has
six duplicated vowel pairs instead of one.

Also, it only has a few ones with the symbolized letter repeated,
and it uses several undefined words.

One advantage it has is that {kunti} for space makes a whole lot
more sense than {du}, which I chose because it's a monosyllable
that also happens to be in GOhA (although I'm not sure what the
advantage of having all the words be in GOhA is).


I'm also thinking of defining a pair of cmavo that means "treat all
these words as letterals, and parse the result as Lojban text."

I'd also like to have a way to state the text normally in parallel,
so maybe that'd be three cmavo ---

    [FOO normal text] BAR spelled-out text BAZ

--- where the "FOO normal text" part is optional.

So, let's say they're called {sa'e'u}, {lo'e'u} and {le'e'u}.  Then we
could have, for example,

   mi'e la sa'e'u daniel lo'e'u dunda alba nirna irci estre laldo le'e'u

Anyone like that?

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