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.