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Re: Fun with orthography

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Monday, October 15, 2001, 17:26
* BP Jonsson said on 2001-10-14 15:29:37 +0200
> At 02:44 2001-10-14 +0200, taliesin the storyteller wrote: > > Yoon Ha: > > > [..] Is there another alphabet-letter going unused that you could > > > assign, like <j>? > > > > Taken, for /Z/. The only regular 26-letter alphabet character that > > hasn't been used for something is {w}. [..] > > Is /Z/ distinct from palatalized /z/?
Haven't come over a palatalized /z/ yet so there might not be. Hmm... time to work through the vocab and text and make Yet Another Sound Inventory Writeup, I see. (YASIW - not that bad a word)
> Too bad you got long consonants, or you could use C-doublinng for > palatalization. I always thought that was a nice idea...
Ah, macrons, an imaginary kingdom made up on the spot for macrons! It's -the- best way to show length, and gives an archaic feel to boot. Oh well, maybe time to check out how vim handles unicode these days. t.