[lojban] Re: I wanted to share this with you (writing thingy!).

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> 1. What xorxes said.
Whitespace or the next link.

> 2. What about , ?
http://jbotcan.org/ideas/src/1289248658702.png

> 3.http://yfrog.com/63coip<-- I tried it with my calligraphy pen.
Very nice!

> 4. Why did you choose ai ei oi au for the extra ones?
They're the only permitted diphthongs in Lojban that aren't initial I/
U. I had A E I O U, but then 4 more spaces to fill in the vowel grid.
More than that, it's a way to prevent non-permitted vowel clusters
from appearing because there's no actual way to write "ou" in the
system, it -has- to be "o,u" or "o.u".

This does present one small problem in that {.uai} can be written,
despite that triphthongs are not permitted in Lojban. If anybody can
think of a solution, I'd love to hear it, but I spent a lot of time
messing with the vowel grid and never came up with a decent
replacement.

> 5. Why are the vowels arranges the way they are, from bottom to top?
In the original Elian Script this is how the grid is numbered.

> Any particular reason? Actually, in general, is there a pattern to the
> order that the characters appear in?
Yes, there is a pattern. All plosives are on the left, fricatives in
the middle, and the odd characters on the right (kinda...). As for the
arrangement of PTK vs. any other arrangement of those three letters,
it was what I felt should be the correct order. There was no thought
in arranging them FSC vs. FCS vs. SCF or any other permutation, it's
just how I felt they should be ordered. As far as the voiced table, L/
R and M/N are kinda paired anyway, so blah. =P

tl;dr Dunno, mostly random arrangement. No reason in particular.

> 6. This is actually really cool!

Thank you.

Finally, for those that still don't quite get it, there's a tutorial
here:

http://jbotcan.org/ideas/src/1289250735647.png

I didn't include everything, but all of this together should give you
a fairly good idea of how to do this. It can also be written top-to-
bottom. =D

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