Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

At 15:32 7.3.2003 -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:

>you can find out more about Ebisedian and judge for yourself whether it
>deserves its label of obscurity, here:
>         http://quickfur.ath.cx:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.pdf
Wow!  It's even readable in that orthography! :-)  How does that relate to 
the ASCIIfication you use in email?

>  The abrupt breathing, which is the normal vowel breathing, is pro-
>nounced with a preceding glottal stop. For example, ¡ is pronounced
>[Pi], and a¡ is pronounced [PaPi].
>3
>  The smooth breathing, indicated as ` a, is pronounced with a preceding
>semivowel. For example, ` ¡ is pronounced [ji], ` y is pronounced [4y], ` u
>is pronounced [wu], and ` a is pronounced [a
>
>a].
>  The rough breathing, indicated as ha, is pronounced with a preceding
>unvoiced glottal fricative. For example, h  3 is pronounced [h9:].

This is exactly like Tibetan.  Did you steal it there, somewhere else or in 
thin air?

/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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