Re: German style orthography

--- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:53:15 -0800, bob thornton
> <arcanesock@...> wrote:
> >
> > This is the mail as I received it, excepting my
> own
> > frippery. Please do tell me what the doodlyjiggers
> are
> > that weren't shown.
>
> Apparently, his email was in UTF-8 but it was marked
> as iso-8859-1
> instead. Here's an attempt to send it legibly -- I
> presume Gmail will
> make UTF-8 out of it, and I hope the list won't
> mangle it too badly.
> (Though it may decide to use MIME encoding, either
> QP or Base-64,
> rather than 8-bit.)
>
> [begin quote]
>
> Here's my try for a German-style orthography of the
> language Tüësë:
>
> (plosives)
> /p/   p
> /b/   b
> /t/   t
> /d/   d
> /k/   k
> /g/   g
> /q/   q
> (nasals)
> /m/   m
> /n/   n
> /N/   ng
> (fricatives)
> /P/   f
> /B/   w
> /T/   þ
> /D/   Ä‘
> /s/   s
> /s_m/ sh
> /z/   Å¿
> /z_m/ Å¿h
> /C/   ch
> /j\/  jh
> /x/   χ
> /X/   ħ
> /h/   h
> (laterals)
> /l/   l
> /L/   Å‚
> (approximate)
> /j/   j
> (rhotic)
> /rR\)/ (This is a simultaneous r and R\... it is fun
> to pronounce.)  r
> (affricatives)
> /tT)/   tþ
> /dD)/   dđ
> /ts)/   z
> /dz)/   ds
> /tC)/   tch
> /dj\)/  dj
> /kx)/   kχ
> /qX)/   qħ
> ("whistlized")
> /s_m_W/ (_W represents "whistlization") schü
> /z_m_W/ shü
> /C_W/   chü
> /j\_W/  jü
> /x_W/   chü
> /t_W/   tü
> /d_W/   dü
> /k_W/   kü
> /g_W/   gü
>
> Vowels are:
>
> /i/  ie
> /I/  i
> /e/  e
> /&/  ä
> /@/  ë
> /u/  u
> /O/  o
> /A/  a
>
> […]
>
> The suggestions I posted for the whistled consonants
> are mistaken. The
> following are consistent:
>
> /z_m_W/ ſhü
> /x_W/   χü
>
I am still not getting the symbols. Could the sender
please just list what they are, such as "a-acute" or whatnot?

=====
-The Sock

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"


		
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