Re: Atlantean Corpus

Jeffrey Henning wrote:

> > Anyway, the Americanized syllable-wise notation is positively
> > bile-raisingly ugly and unacceptably clunky.
>
> This was done on purpose to make it as simple as possible for the actors.
> They didn't have to learn anything special in order to read their lines in
> Atlantean.
>
> But apparently Michael J. Fox needed more help than the others.
And he is Canadian, no?

The presumption that it has anything to do with America, rather
than with how English speakers in general would have to deal
with their noticeably unphonemic orthography, is dubious IMHO.

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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