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CHAT: English & "a whole pile of new letters" (wasRe: chat: aconlang of my very own :)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, June 3, 2002, 20:29
Tristan McLeay wrote:
> I do believe this would be the yogh of which you speak. Except that yogh > made the /G/ sound I think. Or was yogh just the letter used for <g>? I > can't remember...
In Old English, yogh was just the way they wrote {g}, but in Middle English, it was adapted to represent /x/, and alternated with {gh} -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42