Subject: Re: [lojban] stress, capitalization & audiovisual isomorphism

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:23:15 -0500

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
> <y> 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 <y> would sometimes mean [@] and sometimes [j].

You are free to retort that already <i> means sometimes /i/ and
sometimes /j/, but I will riposte that there is no /j/ in
Lojban.

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