https://github.com/cjolowicz/lojban-alice-in-wonderland

The Lojban translation of “Alice in Wonderland”, in alternate orthography
https://github.com/cjolowicz/lojban-alice-in-wonderland

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The Lojban translation of “Alice in Wonderland”, in alternate orthography

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cjolowicz/lojban-alice-in-wonderland
• Owner: cjolowicz
• Created: 2014-12-27T13:10:26.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-12-27T13:10:44.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-12T07:37:10.830Z (2 months ago)
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## Alice in alternate orthography

I converted “la alis. cizra je cinri zukte vi le

selmacygu'e” (the Lojban translation of “Alice In

Wonderland”) to a non-standard orthography. The result is

available in plain text format encoded in UTF-8. The goal of this

alternate orthography is to provide a visually lightweight

representation of Lojban text, making it more readable and more

pleasing to the eye. It differs from standard orthography in two ways:

**Apostrophe.** The orthography completely eliminates

the apostrophe ('), which is replaced by a diaeresis only where this

is required to distinguish a vowel pair from a diphthong. The

diaeresis is placed on the letters ‘i’ and

‘u’, which are the only ones used to form diphthongs.

More precisely,

> *a diaeresis is applied to the second vowel of a two-syllable vowel

> pair if the pair would otherwise constitute a falling diphthong

> (“aï, eï, oï, aü”), and to the first vowel if the pair

> would otherwise constitute a rising diphtong (“ïa, ïe, ïi, ïo,

> ïu, ïy, üa, üe, üi, üo, üu, üy”); the diaeresis is not used in

> any other case.*

**Period.** An alternate period ‘·’

(middle dot, U+00B7) is consistently applied before the sentence link

“.i” and its compounds, except at the beginning of

paragraphs. This is done as a visual aid to the reader, to mark the

beginning of sentences. This alternate period is also applied in

conjunction with “la'o gy · … ·

gy”. Otherwise, the period (which is optional according to the

[Reference

Grammar](http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=195)) is omitted, as in large parts of the original

version.