As a way of avoiding using script shifts (selma'o BY1), and of having to memorise Old Church Slavonic names for Cyrillic, and heaven knows what we'd do with Arabic "teh",
I (nitcion) propose the following sleazy lerfu cmene scheme:
- Cy/V name of lerfu, per normal Lojban
- + CC or CVC for script provenance. With the following list pulled out of thin air:
- Roman: l (from lo'a)
- Greek: g (from ge'o)
- Cyrillic: r (from ru'o)
- Arabic: x (from xrabo)
- Hebrew: j (from je'o)
- Armenian: dj (from xadjestan?)
- Georgian: k
- Devanagari: d
- Katakana: p (from ponjo)
- Hiragana: pix (ponjo xiraganan... Oh, whatever)
Which would mean
- Roman b: by or byl.bu
- Greek beta: ge'o by or betas.bu or byg.bu
- Cyrillic be: ru'o by or bukys.bu or byr.bu
- Arabic beh: jo'o by or byx.bu
- Hebrew bet: je'o by or bet.bu or byj.bu
- Devanagari ba: zai.devanagar.bu by or byd.bu
I mean, it can't be any more broken than the current system...
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What about just using Unicode character codes? me'o se'erenodaugai would be the euro sign. Arabic beh would be me'o se'enoxarebi. And so on. mi'e filip
we can already do so; but numbers have no mnemonic value. The Unicode mailing list sees a fair bit of codes, but I think the majority of usage is still names (and the standard provides both.) — n.