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

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> "ko ciska xa tarmi so marna pelji fi'e la lindar"


XD!! That's hilarious!


As for the semi-arbitrary theme of the vowels, it was just going in
vowel-order, then doing the odd-duck diphthong, then putting the I-
ending diphthongs all in the right column.

However, if we -are- going to change the vowel table, it's going to be
like this:

> i |oi | o
> __|___|___
> ai| e | ei
> __|___|___
> a | au| u
>   |   |

However, I do not exactly like this. The whole point is that it takes
no effort to remember anything because it's in a particular order,
starting at the bottom left and going up each column left-to-right.
The vowels are A E I O U AU AI EI OI because AU is an odd-duck, so it
should fill up the last space, and then the three I-enders should go
in order in the last column together. No effort in remembering,
because it's in order and matches how the entire rest of the system
goes, Whereas with the one above, it's a clockwise circle with a dip
into the middle to do the vowels in order (hard to remember), and then
the combinations of them (except ei) are the diphthongs. With the
original setup it's even worse because it's an anticlockwise circle
that starts at the top-right, which is completely counter to the order
everything else takes. So for a slightly more "oh, that makes sense"
feature in the vowels, we now break the uniformity with which
everything was made and make remembering which vowels are which that
much harder.

So if enough people want to do it the 'combining table' way, then I'll
start doing that, but I've been writing the current way for around a
year now, so it'll take a bit of effort.

Also, before you go deciding what's going to be what, consider if
you'll actually use this on a daily basis, cos I do. So don't go
changing stuff that you're not ever going to use. =D

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