Re: Alteutonik (was: Intergermansk)

Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
>> which, after a while, owing perhaps to some of the difficulty of making
>> reformed English spelling look any good,
>
> It is difficult, isn't it? Especially getting a system that does not do
> violence either to words of Latin origin or to words of Saxon origin.
Indeed.  One of my own half-baked spelling reform schemes proposed
two different spelling systems, one for native words and one for Romance
ones.

>> and even uses q and (ISTR) upside-down i as vowel signs.
>
> Well, I guess lower case |q| looks like a hand-written lower case |a| with
> a descender, and upper case |Q| is used as a vowel in SAMPA. X-SAMPLA &
> CSX. He was obviously ahead of his time   ;)
I believe that 'turned-a' was indeed the effect he was going for.
There was a third unusual vowel sign but I forget exactly what it was.
I said 'last year' but it was really two years ago.  But I did take
some notes, maybe I could hunt them up.

Oo, I had more than I remembered.  His invented characters are "inverted
c, i, and m" -- apparently the predecessors of [O], [I], and [M].  (He
predates the IPA, but apparently these symbols were already just coming
into use at the time.) He makes a concession to typographers by making
their capitals O· I· and U· (with middots beside them, "inverted periods").
The capital of 'q' for aesthetic reasons is "A·".

I will have to make this available...

	*Muke!
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