Re: USAGE: [CONLANG] A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> >
> > Runic writing had feature you really ought to include in Maggel's
> > orthography (if it isn't already): If a word ends in the same letter as
> > the
> > the next begins in, the words are written together and the letter in
> > question is only written once.
>
>That's gonna be difficult to add, but I'm gonna think about it :)) . I
>already
>have strange things like the fact that when the adjective precedes the noun
>(and the article, which is mandatory as soon as an adjective is present and
>is
>always put just before the noun), it is written as one with the article
>although the article is really pronounced as one with the noun :)) .
Neat ...
>
>  To add to the confusion, many Runes are
> > horribly polyvalent (I'm refering to the late, Nordic Runes) - only
> > one
> > letter for /g k N/, and anone letter can be read as any of /i j e æ/
> > (the
> > last is ash).
>
>That is already a feature of Maggel. Necessary when you have only 17
>letters to
>transcribe 70-odd sounds :)) .
I suppose that Maggel, like the Runes, nonetheless feels free have several
ways to write the same sound? (Eg, seveal Runic letters can indicate ash,
yet each of them can also indicate other vowels.)
>
>  Add inconsistent use of the word-break marker, and you
> > get
> > things like "a.ustarlar.ni.kafu" for _austarla ærni gafu_ "eastward
> > the
> > eagle gave" (from an inscription on a stone from Gripsholm).
> >
>
>I think I saw that inscription already :)) .
Wouldn't surprise me; it's pretty well-known. To give to the eagle means, of
course, to slay people in battle - poetic types, the old Nordics.

                                                  Andreas

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