Re: Ping! Énglis´ Artspellin

From: "Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC)" <EDCCET@...>

(by the way I'm impressed with your use of Latin Extended-A (the first
letters in Unicode after 255 decimal)

>Well, here is there an explanation of my system in text format.
>The following letters have no change (unless part of diagraphs):
>  b, d, f (except of > ov), h, j, k, m, p, s, t, v, w, z
>The following monograph letters have different spellings:
>  c > c cedilla (c, in ASCII), when /s/ and not followed by any "e" or
"i".
>  c > c dot above (c. in ASCII), when /k/ followed by "e" or "i".
>  c > c, all other cases.
>  g > g acute (g' in ASCII), when /dZ/ or /Z/.
>  g > g, all other cases
So g is [g] before all vowels unless marked?  And no distinction between
/dZ/ and /Z/ (which is probably irrelevant anyway)?

>  l > l apostrophe bellow (,l in ASCII), when vocalic.
I use the cedilla/apostrophe below to mark retroflexes and vocalics,
since my Arial/Courier New/Tahoma/Times New Roman fonts don't have
letters with dots below.  And an apostrophe is easier to see than a
simple dot.  I like what you have.

>  l > l, all other cases.
>  n > n apostrophe bellow (,n in ASCII), when vocalic.
>  n > eng (n, in ASCII), sometimes when /N/.
Oh I love the eng!  Especially the glyph for capital eng in Times New
Roman -- it's not a capital N with a tail, it's an oversized lower-case
n which loops inward on the right.  Makes it distinctive.

>The following consonantal diagraphs are reduced to one symbol:
[...]
>  gh > yogh (gh in ASCII), when mude
[...]
>  kn > yogh + n (ghn in ASCII), when /n/
I was thinking more like g-breve, since it's used in Turkish for the
silent g.

>  th > thorn (th in ASCII), when /T/.
Thanks for using the thorn (my favorite letter)  ;)

>  ti > t hook (t' in ASCII), when /S/.
What kind of hook?  You mean an apostrophe after or below, a cedilla, or
a caron?

>  wh > hu diagraph (hu in ASCII), both /hw/ and /h/.
That's Latin Extended-B, which of course is in Thyromanes.  I don't
think it can be found in the Microsoft core fonts (Arial, Courier, Times
Roman).  Have any ideas for an alternate character that can be found in
Latin-1 or Latin Ext-A?  (I'm thinking of a w-circumflex, one of those
crazy Welsh vowels.)

>Mude vowels:
>  If mude in some dialects: same orthography as English.
>  If always mude but mark a phonetic feature: leave as is: example
CVCe,
>where <e> is mude but marks lenght of V.
>  Dropped otherwise.
Or use an apostrophe, meaning 'Kilroy the Vowel wuz here'

The rest of the chart I won't comment on.  Becuase I think it's the best
it can be.  Even the use of final 'y' for sake of aesthetics.

DaW.