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Re: [lojban] Novel written system that parallels the logic of Lojban?



I've wanted to explore a system like that for a a Signed Exact
Lojban signing/writing system, since the 'alphabet' of signed
language is so much larger.

  http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban+Sign+Language

mi'e .alyn.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:00:00PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>    But I disagree that it is similar. *Larlermorna (which I use for my gmail
>    avatar) is based on letters/phonemes, as are all the alternate
>    orthographies. *Charlicopter was suggesting a system built around
>    "Lojbanic structure, syntax, logic, etc." *Completely*different idea.
>    * * * --gejyspa
>    On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Jonathan Jones <[1]eyeonus@gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Michael Turniansky
>      <[2]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>        * Actually, Jonathan, I would have dismissed it too, as "oh, great,
>        another suggestion for a writing system" *But this one was actually
>        different. *It's suggesting that rather than a simply one-to-one
>        substitution of the existing orthography to another letter-based
>        system, that we basically give each brivla a single symbol, based on
>        things such as place value, so that, for example, each of the danlu
>        gismu might look similar, since they have similar terbri. * It's an
>        intriguing suggestion, but I doubt there's much support for it.
>        * * * * * * *--gejyspa
> 
>      I wasn't dismissing it. I told him to Google larlermorna because that
>      writing system is similar to what he described.
> 
>      I agree that there isn't likely going to be much support for such a
>      system.
>      *
> 
>        On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Jones
>        <[3]eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>          Google "larlermorna".
> 
>          On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:43 PM, [4]charlicopter@gmail.com
>          <[5]lanternsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>            Greetings everyone,
>            This is my first time visiting the forums...
>            My curiosity currently lies in the possibility of a written system
>            that could be developed around Lojban that respects its logical
>            nature.
>            As far as I can tell in my rudimentary beginnings as a student of
>            Lojban: The language is designed around phonetics in a similar way
>            to Japanese. by that, I mean that the language uses predictable
>            and consistent combinations of vowel and consonant phonetics in
>            the structure of the constituent word-forms.
> 
>            Preposition: In written Lojban, what if you used a character
>            system similar to Japanese hiragana and katakana:
>            [6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana* &*
>            [7]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana
>            Japanese Katakana and Hiragana are based on characters which hail
>            from ancient cultural influences, but what if you started fresh
>            and designed characters around some kind of logical analysis of
>            Lojbanic structure, syntax, logic, etc. such that the characters
>            are themselves always internally consistent and logical?
>            Pictorally speaking, you have many variables to draw upon: stroke
>            length, angle, curvature, dots, rotation/orientation, etc.
>            certainly as many variables as are needed to accurately represent
>            the phonetics, syntax etc. of the language. In this way, entire
>            gismu might have a chance of being reduced to single characters
>            which LOOK and FLOW as logically as they behave.
> 
>            Thoughts?
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