History: names of lerfu: letter plus script

Source of version: 1 (current)

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.

History: names of lerfu: letter plus script

Source of version: 1 (current)

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