Re: new Klingon spelling
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 4, 2004, 17:49 |
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:38:09AM -0600, Axiem wrote:
> Happen to have a handy link to reading ASCII IPA? (Not that vowels were ever
> my strong point with IPA...)
http://www.conlanglinks.tk has a variety of useful conlang-related links,
including, in the third group of links, pointers to images of an IPA
chart with ASCII equivalents in blue in two systems: X-SAMPA and "CXS".
CXS is just X -SAMPA, with a few symbols that were unpopular with folks on
this list replaced with more palatable ones.
> Incidentally, I never knew the origin of "karaoke". I've wondered at it,
> actually. If the "oke" is from "orchestra", what is the "kara" from?
Short for "karappo", meaning "empty"; same root as the "kara" in "karate":
empty-handed combat, empty-orchestra-pit singing.
-Mark
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