Re: YAEPT: Enuf is Enuf: Some Peepl Thru with Dificult Spelingz

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <conlang@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:18 PM

> You forgot ɨ (i\), ɯ (M), ø (2), œ (9) and æ (&)! Also, ı
> is not
> kosher IPA: lax i is ɪ; ɷ is an old-fashioned variant of
> ʊ and so
> isn't distinct from it in IPA; and ʚ is just a mistake for
> ɞ.
My bad. But I would nevertheless use rather ı than ɪ for
aesthetic reasons. In IPA of course, I *would* use ɪ!

> Personally, I vote we go for the ramshorns ɤ (7). My
> favorite IPA
> character. Don't care what vowel we use it for [no /7/ in
> English :(],
> but surely *something* deserves to be spelt with it!
Yeah, I also wanted to use them, but then I didn't find any
place where this would fit. Also, there isn't a capital
version of it as far as I know.

>> p - p                  i - i
>> b - b                  i: - i
>> t - t                  I - ı
>> d - d                  E - e
>> k - k                  æ - ë
>> tS - c                 A - a
>> dZ - j                 A: - á
>> f - f                  Q - o
>> v - v                  Q: - ó
>
> For dialects with that contrast, it is by more than just
> length e.g.
> GAmE /A/ vs /O/, RP /Q/ vs /O:/, AusE /O/ vs /o:/.
I am not a native speaker, mind you!

>> T - th (þ? ŧ?)         U - u
>> D - dh (ð? đ?)         u - ú
>> s - s                  u: - ú (some have [u\:] here)
>> z - z                  V - a
>
> No dialect tmk distinguishes all three of /A A: V/; in
> fact, I have no
> idea what contrast you're trying to draw. On the other
> hand, you
> rather sensibly spell /A/ and /V/ the same, so I assume
> this is just
> typo-based confusion?
Yeah, most probably. AFM ideolect, I think I even merge /A/
and /V/.

Vowels are always a peculiar topic, anyway. I took the list
of sounds from my German-English dictionary, assuming that
they've got the sounds right regarding phonemicity.

> No. It would be an abuse of Unicode; things like automatic
> recapitisation and sorting would fail. We could just
> finally do away
> with caps...
Of course it would be. Ah well ... As for the caps, they are
a nice feature of our script I think. Heh, in an uncial
font, there are only capital letters ;-) Oh, and then,
there's also alphabet 26 or how it's called. Search Omniglot
for that. It looks like the font they used for McD's
"Deluxe" campaign.

Carsten

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