Re: USAGE: English vowel transcription [Re: Droppin' D's Revisited]

>From: Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:24:22 -0400
>
>(Ob-conlang: my first conlang used a system of diacritics over vowels to
>indicate a combination of stress and vowel quality.  Attached to both
>English vowels and European vowels, I made it a mixture of the two
>systems, which led to having five different kinds of "e", as well as four
>different ways to write /e/.)
>
>Amanda
Sounds like MY first one.  I think I ended up with something like 96
phonemes!  Every new sound I came across ended up in there.  I had numerous
A's, E's, I's, O's and U's.  All written with variant shapes of the basic
Roman character -- typed, printed, cursive, reversed, uncial, (occasionally)
Greek -- orthographically and otherwise it was a mess, but I was only 12 so
. . .

Adam

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