Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...

| -----Original Message-----
| From: H. S. Teoh
| Subject: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!
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| > >     http://quickfur.ath.cx:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.pdf
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| In fact, I much prefer that orthography than in the ASCII orthography
| which I use here only by necessity. The ASCII orthography is unconsciably
| ugly, as Jesse Bangs puts it, and is probably responsible for a large part
| of Ebisedian's freaklang reputation.

        Hi,
 Well, Ebisedian won't be alone in looking like a freaklang. I'm having similar
issues with rendering my own, Tekwari. The full name is Tekwaropa'hohu'c`ae`,n
means "they
are talking about (distributave)/around now-ish (vague-present)".
 In Tekwari, graves, accute/appostrophies, and commas can stack on vowels, and
tildes and graves can stack on consonants.

 The grave indicates "alternate letter". The orthography has many non-ascii
letters, which are rendered by the "closest" basic Latin letter followed by a
grave. So, "e`" is a schwa, "n`" is an engma, "d`" and "t`" are edh and thorn.
Also, it is used for accented letters; "s`" and "z`" are s-hachek and z-hachek.
        The grave *always* immediately follows the letter.
 The only exception is "l-" for "l-bar", the unvoiced lateral frictive. "L`" is
l-hachek, or the voiced lateral frictive.

 For the vowels, the suffixed accute represents the accute accent mark. (It
indicates a high pitch, roughly 1.25 length, and forces front/back vowel
harmony with the proceding and following vowel.)
 The suffixed comma is for the ogonek, which is nasalization. (I thought of
using the circumflex, which would let me use the Vietnamese circumflex+accute
letters.)
 The only "graved" vowels are "i`", whcih is "dotted-i" ("i" is undotted-i),
and "e`" for schwa.
 The normal order is `,'. So, "i`,'" is dotted-i-ogonek-accute, or a stressed
lax front high vowel nasalized.

        For consonants, the grave is described above.
 The tilde represents +voice and +palatalization. So, "ta" would be /tA/, while
"t~a" would be /djA/. While my notes aren't here, I believe the name for this
is "omo,'s`vt~a", /OmO~:\"S6djA/. Some suffixes change the preceding consonant
in this way.

        Mike

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Mike Karapcik   *       Tampa, FL
Network Analyst *       USF campus
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Research Center
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