Re: Fun with orthography
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 15, 2001, 9:04 |
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At 02:44 2001-10-14 +0200, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. Could you reassign palatalization to the apostrophe, or do you
> > want to just not have apostrophes? <pondering> 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}. I've though of using {µ} though,
>but the comma is even more of a modifying diacritic than the apostrophe
>ever was.
Is /Z/ distinct from palatalized /z/?
Too bad you got long consonants, or you could use C-doublinng for
palatalization. I always thought that was a nice idea...
/BP 8^)>
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