Re: OT: Conorthography aesthetics (WAS: Re: Featural code based on ...

Quoting "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:16:54PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> [snip]
> > Beyond the atrocious use of "3" as a letter, I don't think that's even
> > close to the terribleness of Peter's system.
>
> Well, this sample text happened to be rather OK in terms of the relative
> lack of atrocious features (besides the 3's and 0's). There is the smooth
> breathing prefix "`", the use of repeated letters for long vowels, and the
> "~" affix for nasalization, all of which can attach to a single vowel.
> E.g., _`ww~'i_ for ["w8~?i]. Or, as a real-word example, _l3~ka's33_.
> Granted, this doesn't happen all the time, but still...
I'll grant you that those two are ugly enough.

The strong/weak point of Peter's scheme is that it makes almost every word
look terribly ugly.

                                                         Andreas