Re: CHAT: The love of inventing & conscripts (Was: Re: I'm new!)

jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> Some
> of my more interesting approaches included a syllabary where every English
> letter became a syllable that was then spelled out.  The result was
> something with extremely long words but which couldn't be immediately
> spotted as a derivative of English.
My cousin and her friend had a code like that called "tot", where every
consonant had -ot added to it, vowels remained the same, and double
letters were "squared", e.g., hello = hot-e-lot-squared-o.  I then
invented a complication called flip-tot, where you would take the
letters and flip them.  After some discussion, we agreed that it would
be done *after* the totting, thus, hello = e-hot-o-lot-squared.

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