Re: CHAT: Intonation surrogates in online text

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> > After not using the darn things, I've now taken to sprinkling the odd
> > smiley or two around since I found that some remarks which I thought no one
> > could possibly take as anything but a joke got taken seriously.
Indeed.

> Ummm. Is this still about conlangs? Er, does anyone have a distinc ironic
> register available in their conlang? Charyans are seldom ironic, most often
> just playful!
AFMC, I have discovered the intonation patterns
(imagine a nice HTML table) below:

Supra-segmental ..... Spoken Sound ....... Written As

word separator ...... long vowel ......... a space " "

phrase boundary ..... distinct pause ..... a comma ","

sentence boundary ... long pause ......... commas ",,"

proper name ......... medium-high tone ... Capitalized

word emphasis  ...... quite-high tone .... *asterisked*