From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Feb 06 11:18:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 6 Feb 2001 19:17:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 42629 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2001 19:17:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 6 Feb 2001 19:17:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 6 Feb 2001 19:17:40 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id OAA15803; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:23:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:23:30 -0500 To: seidensticker , lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Punctuation Message-ID: <20010206142330.Q18781@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: seidensticker , lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <000c01c0904a$286d3840$4f5681ce@wlink.net> <20010206134313.J18781@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <006201c09070$ba8b4480$4f5681ce@wlink.net> <20010206142038.P18781@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010206142038.P18781@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>; from rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:20:38PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:20:38PM -0500, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > Getting a little crazy, this thinking could be extended for other > > wrapper pairs besides lu/li'u, such as le/ku or be/be'o. Yes, the > > text might look a little LISP-like, but it still think that it would > > be an aid to the reader. Ignoring practical consideratations for a > > moment (like: what punctuation would you use or how could jbofi'e be > > made to understand these synonyms?), wouldn't this make the text > > easier to visually parse? > > Yes, it probably would. When I'm actually fluent enough to be concerned > about that sort of thing, I'll get back to you. 8) > > I actually really _like_ the purity of a really small set of characters, > though. Even if ' is one of them. To followup to myself, one of the reasons is that it allows simpler conversion to alternative orthographies, like the Tenguar. However, you're really talking about aliases, so I suppose that's unfair. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP