Latin orthography has the advantage of many people in the world know about it, it's being used a lot in scientific contexts, it's compatible with ASCII, etc.
Negative: Latin letters are not cultural neutral, they've got history and are a part of West's cultural "colonialism" or what you would to call it.
There is no ortography associated with natural language that is cultural neutral, therefore I think it's a great idea to construct a completely new set of characters, with no history (yet).
When constructing this character set you may, or may not, be inspired by existing writing systems like hangul, japanese, devanagari, arabic etc etc., but I think the result should be something completely different.
Tengwar has the advantage of not being so real-world cultural biased, but it's still not uniquely associated with lojban. I think lojban shouldn't borrow cultural signs from other, fictional or non-fictional, but have their own lojbanic (global) cultural system.
Next question is: phonemic or ideograms? The advantage of phonemic characters is they're not so many. I like
Skickat fr�min iPhone
How does the current standard orthography not meet the aims of your proposal?
stevo On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:43 PM, charlicopter@gmail.com <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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana & 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?
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban/-/RSMpezF6avUJ.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.
|