Re: Orthography help

Trebor Jung wrote:

> How could I represent /K/ and /tK)/ as non-digraphs?
/K/ can be represented as a barred L: originally a lower case l with a
hyphen superimposed, which was easy to produce on a typewriter, but you
could use the Polish "l with stroke", if your software can handle it. In
newer versions of Word or WordPad under Windows XP you can type the
number 0142 followed by Alt+X to produce this character, or there's
probably a Polish keyboard layout that would have it. But if you need to
use unaccented characters of the Latin alphabet, it would be somewhat of
an arbitrary choice; "x" might be as good as any.

Some texts use a barred lambda for /tK)/, but this is a somewhat rare
character, probably best avoided if you're putting the text on a web
page or something. Of the remaining Latin letters, perhaps "k" could be
used for this.

I guess it depends on how your speech software deals with arbitrary
strings of characters: does it spell them out one letter at a time or
try to pronounce them as words? You could use "x" to represent /tK)/, so
that at least it would sound a bit like an affricate.

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