Re: Romanization of Reduced Vowels

Constructed Languages List,CONLANG@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU,Internet Gateway writes:
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>All right... I think I'm beginning to understand this now. Thanks to
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>you. I believe that all these vowel sounds are all conditioned
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>variants of /@/. So you'd suggest using one symbol. But the question
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>is, what symbol? It seems really contrived to me to write for
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>instance a word that sounds like [mw@j] and [mj@n] as "maway" and
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>"mayan" respectively.
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>R
>egards,
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>-Kristian- 8-)
Do you want a lower-ascii symbol? If y, w, or h are unused, that's what I'd do,
but v also seems viable (if your unused letters are q and x, you're in
trouble). If you need a non-alphabetic sign, my tastes can't help you there. !
or & would be my favorites.

If you don't need ascii, a-grave would be my first choice. Alternately, you
could use a font with a schwa--Jaghbub for the mac is Times with extra letters
and diacritics for transliterating Arabic, Turkish, and probably some others.
It's got schwa. There's probably some windoze equivalent.

But then, looking at another post of yours, you say that all minor syllable
(unaccented, I assume) vowels are /@/. If that's the case (and accent is
regular or marked), why not simply go for phonemic rather than phonetic
transcription and write the full vowels?

ever green
sam