Re: Apostrophes

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 21:10:41 -0700, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
wrote:

>So far I've been using the standard ASCII apostrophe ' for all three types
>of usage. I've tried ` and - but the former looks kinda weird and the
>latter I just can't stand. (Nevermind that the hyphen is used extensively
>in the parent language of Asha'ille for Type 2 usage. :)  Should I just
>keep using an apostrophe in all three cases, use something different for
>Types 1 and 3, or work on converting the world to Asha'ille's native script? ;)
I'd suggest {-}, but since you can't stand it, you might as well go on
using {'} as long as it doesn't cause any confusion. Personally, I use {'}
for glottal stops, ejectives, the unwritten epenthetic schwas in Tirelat,
separating pairs of letters that otherwise would look like digraphs, and
various other uses. Hinate~, the new Zireen language I'm starting to
develop (still in its early stages), uses both apostrophes: {'} for
ejectives and {`} for aspirated stops. (I don't use {h} to mark aspiration,
since Hinate~ has a [T] sound, spelled {th} in the romanized version. It
looks better in Word, which uses the comma-shaped single quotes, and the
Polish nasal mark for nasalized vowels.)

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