Re: Orthography Question

At 11:11 -0500 on 09.11.1998, John Cowan wrote:


> Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> > I think the idea of using a ~ is very interesting. Never thought of that
> > myself. The closest equivalent I can think of in any natlang is how
> > Japanese uses katakana to represent foreign words (except for Chinese
> > words borrowed long ago).
>
> How about the standard use of italics in English to indicate
> recent borrowings?
Eurial (my slowly evolving <homophone of castrated bull>lang ;) marks
"external words" (words that don't agree with Eurial orthography in
spelling or pronunciation) with a preceding asterisk.  I don't think it
will clash with the usual linguistic use of asterisk, since
"unattested/ungrammatical" words from any lang are by definition external
to Eurial.  In practice the asterisk tends to flag proper names...

/BP

[Please forgive my all my late replies!  On October 30 my computer got the
notion that there was no sc thing as a "Hard drive" inside it... ;-(]

B.Philip. Jonsson <bpj@...>

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