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Re: [lojban] gua\spi



It probably wouldn't be complicated at all to create an alternate orthography using diacritics similar to those used in pinyin. These symbols were probably used by Carter for technological reasons at the time (this language is incredibly old at this point).
I'd personally be interested in learning gua\spi, and should it be dead, working on it maybe. Perhaps we can use it to test some ideas for loccan3 ?

On 4 August 2012 19:40, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
I find that guaspi already has a lot of features (tones for grammar, very short words) that I'd like to see in LoCCan3, but the orthography, especially for those tones, is so hard for me to grasp that I never pursued it. 

stevo

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:28 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
coi ro do
^:i !ji /glu (to mi rinsa toi)

First of all, sorry if this doesn't belong here, but I'm trying to find more info about gua\spi, and I know for a fact that at least some jbopre had some involvement with it. (And it's a sister language of lojban)
I read the "Introduction to Gua\spi" and the "Gua\spi Reference Manual", but I felt that those texts were not enough to really get to a point where I could even construct a single bridi. In fact, had I not had a lojbanic background, I would probably not have understood any of it.
I read that the inventor James Carter is not working on the language anymore, but maybe he'd be interested in getting back into it, if there was an audience of interested people.
I know that John Cowan came to Lojban *from* Gua\spi, so please, could you share some of your experiences with the langauge and maybe even point me in some direction? (I really hope the language is hopelessly dead, like another conlang I once wanted to learn, only to find out that the author had abandonned it.)
If anybody knows of any other learning materials for this langauge, and a more easily searchable dictionary, I'd be very grateful to be made aware of them.

ki'e mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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