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Re: [lojban] Dscript + Lojban ???
De facto carries a lot of weight and the practicalities of teaching and recruiting even more. The Latin version is standard for all external and most internal purposes, but other systems fill a deep aesthetic need in many people and always have a place in Lojban.
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On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Betsemes <betsemes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 6 September 2012 18:44, la .lindar. <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We only have words to support hex and lower. You're welcome to do
>>>> anything you'd like, but the official writing system shall remain Roman.
>>>
>>> Strictly speaking, there is no official writing system. Any writing system
>>> that can unambiguously refer to each of lojban's sounds is valid, but none
>>> is official. The Roman writing system, albeit the most widespread and de
>>> facto official script, is not *technically* official.
>>>
>>> Sorry to pick nits here, but I don't like seeing anyone being mislead,
>>> even those who are unlikely to even really learn much lojban.
>>
>> Um, you happen to be wrong on this one. The Lojban orthography which uses
>> the Roman script /is/ the official one, both "technically" and in reality.
>> It is not merely the "de facto" one.
>
> As per this: http://mail.lojban.org/lists/lojban-list/msg26595.html,
> back on Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:54:33 there was no official
> alphabet/orthography and both Robin and Jorge weren't inclined to
> approve one. Have this changed? Is there now an officially approved
> one?
>
> mu'o mi'e betsemes
>
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