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Re: Optimum number of symbols

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 5:02
On 20 May 02, at 14:42, Jake X wrote:

> >From: Kendra <kendra@...> > >The idea of diacritics for something other than vowels interests me! > > Well, for conlangs, Esperanto is a very good example. It ONLY uses > diacritics on consonants (examples: cx, gx, hx, where x represents ^ above > the letter.
Remember u-breve :) (Variously rendered as ux, u, and w in plain ASCII. I usually use w, as in "ehxosxangxo cxiujxa*w*de" -- "echo change every Thursday", a phrase containing each "special letter" once.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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