BPFK Section: lerfu Forming cmavo
This is why the whole shift structure is so nearly useless: there is practically no occasion to use it. As you note, it is never needed in written text. In spoken text, it is needed for 1) acronymic names (including Greek-letter organizations), 2) reading written texts (mostly mathematical) where alphabetic variations are significant (upper case or other script — alphabet or even type face), 3) proofreading (with essentially the same range as 2 but covering a wider variety of alternate alphabets — even Elves need proofreaders). The first is already covered by the freedom of naming (and is it really essential that "CIA" or "phi beta kappa" is capitalized?). The others can be covered by a global rule which specifies the character sets (many systems use wingdings or dingbats or whatever as well as letters) involved and specifies the flags for them (against a standard correlation table, I suppose). And even with these, names are available in most cases to be used (and they tend to
come more naturally anyhow), leaving at most type faces that really need some help.
Jorge LlambÃas <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
pc:
> How to do a global shift is not clear but surely
> must be available to do running text in another alphabet.
What kind of running text? If the text is in another language,
then it has to be quoted with {zoi}, and it can use any alphabet.
No lerfu shifts involved. If it is lojban text written in an
alternative alphabet, then it is simply written in that alphabet,
no lerfu shifts will be involved either. {mi klama le zarci} written
using the Greek alphabet will be written with Greek letters, but
the cmavo {ge'o} will not appear anywhere, nor for that matter
the cmavo {my}, {i}, {bu}, {ky}, {ly}, etc.
> Of course, the
> whole shift system seems to me horribly misguided and a great waste of useful
> space that might better be solved by nonce forms and explanations (which
> should, I suppose, be global).
Certainly.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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