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Re: [lojban] gua\spi



On Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:08:23 PM UTC+4, selpa'i wrote:
Am 09.08.2012 07:31, schrieb Gleki Arxokuna:
> Two ideas.
> 1. Why not change tone notation to pinyin style with numbers? (May be
> it'll be easier for future Chinese gua\spi users?)

Numbers are not better than the current tone marks, but it's obviously
possible to use pinyin-like diacritics: :î qnǔ qò jan tára jún ksèo zěy jù

> 2. If not much difference between Lojban and gua\spi may be create a
> two-way converter Lojban <=> gua\spi? If such converter exists gua\spi
> can quickly accumulate the same corpus as Lojban.

That's an interesting idea, but who shall write such a converter? :)
It's probably possible to make a basic converter, but it won't be able
to carry over a particular writing style. gua\spi excels at different
things than Lojban, so a direct translation won't yield an optimal result.
Lojban is syntactically unambiguous. 
If gua\spi is unambiguous too and their gismu coincide in semantics then there are no problems.
Except technical :)
What is more important that almost every conlanger views other conlangs as rival projects.
It shouldn't be the case in Lojbanistan.
No problem if we have numerous LoCCans. Let's see what will be accepted more widely.
This is another level of backward compatibility of LoCCans: through such converter.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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