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Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 0:51
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