History: names of lerfu: letter plus script

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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... -------- 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.

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