Re: Conlang Article in the LA Times

Taliesin:
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My vote is: "both", if the url is longer than 70 characters.
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I'll remember that for the future.

Taliesin also:
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Actually, I think it is a very good article to give to ones
loved ones to explain what it is we are doing. Now, if we could
only get an article about this list so that it'll be notable for
wikipedia... =)
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Well, let me tell you that among those interviewed were me,
Sally, and Sai, and we ALL made a point about SPECIFICALLY
mentioning the Conlang list, and that it was the origin of the term
"Conlang".  Oh well.  Langmaker.com made it in...

BPJ:
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Are the Teoneht and Epiq samples handwritten by you and Sally?
And who made the faux-phonetics? :-)
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Handwritten by Sally; fontwritten by me (though it came out a
little pixelated...  The graphic I sent her was smooth...).  And
Amber wanted the faux-phonetics.  For mine, I gave her an
initial version that was kind of a transcription (using an /a, e, i,
o, u/ vowel system and common romanizations of the sounds,
including "x" for [X]), and she said that even that was too complex,
and so you have the version that showed up.  Kind of goofy,
but does the job, I suppose.

For those not familiar with "American phonetics", the vowel
correspondences are something like this:

ee = [i]
oo = [u]
ah = [A]
oh = [o]
uh = [@]

I guess [e] would be "ay", probably.  Or "ey"?

-David
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