Subject: Place notation in lojban

From: Samuel Rivier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:33:07 -0700 (PDT)

I have a question regarding the original creation of
lojban. It seems odd that this language designed for
ease of computer interpretation would use such a
complex system of place notation for gismu. I don't
understand how that would be ideal if a computer would
have to learn that system for each individual gismu.
Wouldn't it be better to use the more naturalistic
method of creating the place notation by description?

Also, does lojban ever use the letter "h" (not " ' ")
as a designation for a foreign phoneme, like most
languages do? For example, english kh equals /x/ ,
english rh equals /r/ (trilled like in spanish- im
using sampa), and dh equals /D/

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