From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sun Mar 18 20:15:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 19 Mar 2001 04:15:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 5678 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2001 04:15:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Mar 2001 04:15:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 Mar 2001 04:15:56 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id XAA20204 for lojban@onelist.com; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:22:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:22:43 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] The Dvorak of Lojban? Message-ID: <20010318232243.G3953@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com References: <20010318231719.D3953@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: ; from xod@sixgirls.org on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:49:26PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:49:26PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:41:43PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > > >I use Dvorak, actually. It is almost certainly better for lojban > > > > > >than > > > > > >Qwerty is, although lojban has a _lot_ more stuff for the left hand > > > > > >(vowels and ') to do without switching hands. > > > > > > > > > > {da'a slaka nenri tcana na.e}... especially {da'a} which requires > > > > > three pinky > > > > > strokes in a row. I move for exchanging {'} with {h}. > > > > > > > > I've been thinking about that. > > > > > > > > Question for the list as a whole: > > > > > > > > Would anyone be annoyed/find it confusing if some people used h instead > > > > of ' in the same way that some people drop . in written lojban? > > > > > > > > > > > > I find both very irritating. > > > > Both h and ' or both (turning ' into h) and (dropping .)? > > > > Ha! Both deviations from the orthography used in the Book. Which is explicitely stated to be flexible. Nice try. 8) -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