From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Nov 26 09:21:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 26 Nov 2001 17:21:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 64209 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2001 17:21:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Nov 2001 17:21:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2001 17:21:49 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08387; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:22:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C027A83.9060200@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:23:15 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] stress, capitalization & audiovisual isomorphism References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta wrote: > My preferred scheme for getting rid of apostrophes is to replace i and u > in diphthongs by y and w and then delete all apostrophes. The resulting orthography is, I think, unambiguous, but it makes the signification of > subject to more complex rules than the other letters. That extra > complexity had been called by Lojbab a deviation from AVI. Indeed, it would be: specifically, it would cease to be an isomorphism, since would sometimes mean [@] and sometimes [j]. You are free to retort that already means sometimes /i/ and sometimes /j/, but I will riposte that there is no /j/ in Lojban. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel