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lo vrici se pilno be fi la zbalermorna je lo ri taipfase
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Lojban names for Zbalermorna glyphs/characters #5

Open jackhumbert opened 5 years ago

jackhumbert commented 5 years ago

The write-up, the Unicode layout, and @sozysozbot in their renderer all define some of these, but I thought it'd be worth it to discuss these and try to document all of them for glyph/Unicode names in the fonts :)

The suggestions I have here are probably pretty novicely assembled lujvo (I didn't do any scoring) - any corrections or other suggestions are welcome! I left out most of the lerfu defined here. I think we'd end up using h in all of the names, as ' isn't a valid character for these fields. All spaces in the names will be removed - _ is reversed for ligatures, so can't be used to separate words.

English Lojban Notes / Suggestions
Period denpa bu
Apostrophe y'y this lists this as just y'y - does it need bu?
Attitudinal Shorthand cnima'o bu @sozysozbot uses cnima'o - does this need bu too?
Comma slaka bu
Semivowel i iy leribu? lerfu + ibu
Semivowel u uy lerubu? lerfu + ubu
ai diphthong aibu
ei diphthong eibu
oi diphthong oibu
au diphthong aubu
Full vowels sepli me * @sozysozbot postfixes sepli, but we could also prefix clu- or clur- (based on the lujvo rules I think)
Silence smaji bu
Dynamics ba'ebu
Stretch ? tcena bu?
Up tone ? ba'orto'a? from banro and tonga
Down tone ? subyto'a? from sfubu and tonga
Up-down tone ? subybrato'a? from sfubu and brato'a
Down-up tone ? ba'ocmato'a? from banro and cmato'a

The tones have a lot of options with regard to which gismu is appropriate to use. If I'm missing anything here, please let me know!

jackhumbert commented 5 years ago

After talking on the Discord a bit, it looks like leribu is invalid, and uy and iy may work for the names of the semivowels.

jackhumbert commented 5 years ago

Similarly prefixing clu to vowel names for full vowels isn't valid, but constructing them like sepli me abu is. Postfixing bu to the end of words isn't always valid, so the ones based on gismu need to be separate, eg smaji bu. Thanks to la misno tadni, ASmallDuck, and saski'o on the Discord for all their help in understanding these :)