Re: Romaji as syllabary

I think he meant it as a syllabary for a conlang.

See the auxlang BABM, where each letter (except
a e i o u) has an inherent vowel attached. B is
always pronounced as "bo", M as "mu", etc.


Bryan Parry said:
> But what syllables exist in English? Probably not
> these syllables.
>
>
> --- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
>> I just woke up with this odd thought running through
>> my mind for a quick and easy syllabary.  Each of the
>> 26 letters of the Roman alphabet could be treated as
>> a syllable and pronounced in full within the context
>> of the word.  Thus "STO" would be pronounced "es'tio",
>> "HAD" would be "aitchay'dee".
>>
>> Then maybe the lower case letters could represent an
>> alternate syllable like "R" = "aar" while "r" =
>> "ro".
>> Maybe the rule could be vowel before consonant in the
>> upper case and vowel after consonant in the lower
>> case.  ("M" = "em", "m" = "ma", "P" = "ep", "p" =
>> "pee", "TO" = "tio", "tO" = "eto", etc. (But what
>> about "A" vs "a" hmmm. I don't know.))
>>
>> That would make for an easy-to-remember 52 symbol
>> syllabary.  And it could be easily mapped onto a
>> custom made font that worked easily with the
>> standard
>> English keybord.
>>
>> Is 52 enough? There would be 140,608 valid
>> 3-syllable
>> words and 7.3 million 4-syllable words.  That seems
>> like enough.