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Re: [lojban] Re: unicode locale library

On Thursday, July 13, 2017 6:58:33 AM EDT sukender1@gmail.com wrote:
> Great job.
> 
> But I guess this is only the beginning. Standard OS inputs methods should
> have proper dictionaries, and I wish that dictionaries spread out too. It's
> already a pain having a proper spelling / grammar checking for widespread
> OSes (Linux, Windows, Android, iOS...) in my mother's tongue language (*),
> so I guess it would be much more difficult for Lojban.

Grammar checking can be done algorithmically, but since the language is fairly 
young and people are still making up lots of words, a spell checker would be 
difficult. However, there is no inflection of open classes in Lojban, so there 
cannot be arguments like "mosquitoes/mosquitos".

> (*) It's been 27 years that a reform of French orthography has been
> official. However, Android still uses the old one (AFAIK), and Windows let
> you choose the one you want in a deep buried option (which default to
> "old").

I prefer the new way of writing numbers because it makes clear in writing the 
distinction between e.g. 52/1100 and 50/2100, and I like "cigüe, aigüe, et 
ambigüe" better than "ciguë, aiguë, et ambiguë". But some words just look 
wrong without their circumflex. i to la'o fy. cigüe .fy. cu vindu rulsantyspa 
.i la'o fy. aigüe .fy. cu kinli .i la'o fy. ambigüe .fy. cu smuvrici

mu'omi'e .piier.
-- 
lo ponse be lo mruli ku po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

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