Re: Senyecan ortho. breakthrough

From: "caeruleancentaur"

> Þ in place of th: ósÞon = bone.
Congrats and welcome to the list (I missed the your debut on account of
being NOMAIL for so long).

I better point something out, and people miss this a lot so don't feel
bad -- the small thorn is þ (Alt+0254 in Windows); the capital thorn is Þ
(Alt+0222). You used the capital when you probably wanted small.

> And the following punctuation marks:  «  »  ¿   ¡  The
> first two I
> use for quotations marks.  Borrowed that from Greek.
And French, German and numerous other languages. I do that for Tech in both
Latin and Arabic script.

The inverted punctuation marks though... are they used as in Spanish, or do
they have a spcial function? In my conlang, the convention isn't exactly
like Spanish; phrases can end only in an upright question or exclamation
mark but not begin wth an inverted one, and that reflects normal usage. When
inverted mark opens a phrase (which can be a single word) and an upright one
closes, emphasis is implied. For question marks, there is a deal of doubt
about something; for exclamation marks, sarcasm. Examples:

¿The capital of Louisiana is New Orelans?

(Meaning: I doubt the capital of the US state in question is the stated
city. Of course the capital is actually Baton Rouge.)

¡Eating at McDonalds every day is a healthy habit!

(You get the picture.)

This is not standard English usage, but it should be I mean, this is what I
do for Tech. Whenever Tech finally exists, that is.

> In doing the research, I discovered a site on an Indian language in
> Mexico.  Whoever did the investigation has used ö to indication
> labialization of consonants.  "How neat!" thought I.  It adds a touch
> of that exoticness (exoticity?) that we conlangers seem to love.  By
> analogy I will use ï to indicate palatalization.  cöásïa =
> to weave a
> basket.
I use the degree sign in Tech: k°lep (the e is inverted) [k_wl@p] "he was
behaving like a dog". So that way, I can labialize consonants whether or not
they're followed by a vowel.

Palatization is indicated by the acute accent.

> I am still looking for the following 3 graphemes: s with an acute
> accent, z with an acute accent, & gamma.
If you use Windows, you go Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools
 > Character Map. If you use Linux or Macintosh, there has to be some sort of
Unicode character input thingie, but I have no idea what or how.

You could also use S and Z with carons since you can input those with
Alt+0xxx too!

S-caron = Alt+0138
Z-caron = Alt+0142
s-caron = Alt+0154
z-caron = Alt+0158

Can't use that method to plug in gamma though. Unless you just use G/g and
change the font to Symbol for just that letter (which I HATE doing!)

I use two Greek letters in Tech: gamma (voiced uvular stop/fricative), and
lambda (voiceless laterally-released alveolar affricate/fricative). I might
use theta and delta for the interdental fricatives when borrowed from
Arabic.

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