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Re: German style orthography

From:bob thornton <arcanesock@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 3:30
--- 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/ đ > /s/ s > /s_m/ sh > /z/ ſ > /z_m/ ſh > /C/ ch > /j\/ jh > /x/ χ > /X/ ħ > /h/ h > (laterals) > /l/ l > /L/ ł > (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!" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo