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Re: Ebisedian orthography facelift

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 16:51
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From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:39 PM
Subject: Ebisedian orthography facelift


> Hi everyone, > > After my Ebisedian informant recently picked up interest in Classical > Greek, he suddenly decided that the Roman orthography I made for > transcribing Ebisedian would look *much* better if I used iotas instead of > dotless i's for /i/. So I tried it out, and I must say I agree with him > (for once!). > > You can see the results here: > http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/grammar.pdf > http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/lexicon.pdf > http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/tutorial.pdf > > For the PostScript-enabled folk, you can also view the PostScript versions > of these files by replacing the .pdf with .ps. > > Thanks to the flexibility of LaTeX and my orthography-to-LaTeX convertor, > replacing these dotless i's with iotas were a breeze. It certainly looks > much better, and solves the problem of two dotless i's looking too much > like a 'u', etc.. And I must say, it does make Ebisedian look a lot more > stylish than before. Hopefully this will hasten the day when Ebisedian can > finally shed its freaklang reputation. :-) > > > T >
I think ASCII Ebisedian is responsible for much of that reputation. The only way it will be able to shed it will be through universal adoption of Unicode. And a new grammar.