Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

Tristan scripsit:

> I'd be happy enough for it to be BSD-style. I've seen some sort of study
> that suggested the BSD licence was more likely to create forks than the
> GPL (for whatever reason).
Trivially so.  If you fork a BSD-licensed project, you can make all sorts of
improvements, distribute binary-only versions, and keep the other fork from
getting any of those improvements.  The GPL requires you to distribute source
in such a case, and so the other fork can add your improvements at will.

Of course neither of these apply to improvements you make for yourself and
distribute to nobody.

> I knew I had it right the first time.. I kept switching between
> 'wanders' and 'wonders'. Why is it so confusing? /wand@/ is spelt
> <wonder> and /wOnder/ <wander>. Grr, I hate that pair of words in
> combination with my knowledge of the IPA.
/wOnd@/ presumably.  That's what you get for speaking a Deviant Dialect,
my fren.  I make "wonder" [wVndr\=] and "wander" [wAndr\=], very sensibly.
Of course that means I have to employ low back vowels, which Ozites seem
to consider ugly.

> I'm debating bringing in some Hanzi to spice things up a bit, but they
> don't mix terribly well with the Roman alphabet; and anyway, I'd have to
> work out whether it'd make more sense to use Kanji, Simplified or
> Traditional characters, and I dunno if you can mix them in Unicode,
Simplified and traditional characters are not unified in Unicode.

Kanji and hanzi (and Korean hanja) are unified if they look the same and
have the same historical origin, *and* they are not distinguished in the
national standard of a single language (for the sake of round-tripping).

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