Re: OT: Conorthography aesthetics (WAS: Re: Featural code based on ...
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 11, 2003, 2:24 |
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In a message dated 2003:09:10 10:26:26 AM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:
>g0miileg0's orthography isn't among the most aesthetically appealing I've
>seen
LOL, but it was you - IIRC - gave me some of the earliest worthwhile
advice about representing vowel lengths in g0miileg0's conorthography (esp'ly /a:
/ and /V/, etc).
>but beyond the use of "0" as a letter there's nothing much I actively
>dislike.
::plaintive tone:: ...BUT I like the look of _0_ ... and it's mnemonic
value (/aU/ as in "zero").
>Pete's system, OTOH, includes stuff like _euohfv_, which makes
>French look downright stunning by comparison.
::quick look at Christophe G., the Maggel-meister, then...
*snarfle-gigglafit!*
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