Re: Mefato

Philip Newton wrote:
> On 7/10/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
>> When I saw 'Philip Newton' as the writer of the mail, I thought I was
>> going to read some comment about the names 'Anander Hythloday' and
>> 'Mefato'    ;)
>
>
> Sorry to disappoint you!
>
> I'm afraid they still don't ring a bell even after you pointed me to
> them explicitly. ("Anander" looks vaguely Greek for "Un-man", but I
> can't parse the rest.)
Yep - the Latin form of a Greek Άνανδρος (Anandros - un-man, no-man).
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John Crowe wrote:
 > Hmm... Are punctuation and other symbols representable using these
 > 256 syllables?

No.

 > If not, then a computer implementation of the lang will require more
 >  than these 256. (English has 26 letters, but look at how many ASCII
 > symbols there are.)

Yes indeed - exactly the same applies to Jeff Prothero's "Plan B." if
punctuation and other symbols are to be represented, Plan B will have to
use bigger chunks than four-bit representation given for Plan B.

Mefato was merely an exercise to do a "De Kolovrat" style mapping to in
base 16, in a way analogous to that done by De Kolovrat in base 10.

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