Re: [lojban] footnotes, etc?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Marjorie Scherf <skaryzgik@gmail.com> wrote:
>  I remember one of the big deal ones being that for a
> given speech stream, there is one spelling for it, and vice versa.

That has never been true though. For example, the two valid but very
different spellings:

"coi djan i mi klama le zarci" and "coi.djan.imiKLAmaleZARci"
correspond to the same speech stream.

And similarly the spelling "coi djan i mi klama le zarci" can be
pronounced with several equivalent but valid and different speech
streams.

So there is no audiovisual isomorphism. That has always been a misnomer.

What we do have is that all the valid different pronounciations for a
given spelling have the same meaning, and all the valid different
spellings for a given speech stream have the same meaning. But that is
not an isomorphism. I wish people stopped calling it that.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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