Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > Er, I can't figure out where I put that email with the Kirschenbaum URL,
> > so I'm using 3 for the capital? epsilon (looks like 3-backwards).
>
> I thinks that what it is in Kirschenbaum anyways.
Oh, goodie.

> > Frex, /ö/ has become /w3/ and /ue/ (u-umlaut--I  could never remember the
>
> In Windows, do ALT-0252 for ü. Type the numbers on the numeric keypad.
>
> > ASCII) has become /wi/.  The difference between /e/ and /3/ is
> > disappearing; I can hear it but can't reliably produce it.
>
> That seems like an awful lot of sound changes for one generation, but I
> suppose it could happen.
I think it must have been a gradual thing, just most noticeable when it
hit my generation.

> > They've also gradually made some of the spelling more modern and sensible
> > to modern pronunciation.
>
> Do you mean to match up with sound changes, or in the Romanization?
Spelling in Korean.  I have no idea what they're doing in the
Romanization, though the Romanization is actually more phonetic than the
alphabet, so it probably wouldn't make a different.  (The examples I
remember her showing me had to do with picky-alities of mutations and so on.)

YHL