Re: apostrophes in transliteration

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> Random list of collected uses, with credits given, is up at:
>
> http://yhl.freeservers.com/conlang/apostrophe.html
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied!  :-)  And if anyone wants their example
> taken down, or credited differently, or something, let me know.
>
> For my part, I think I'll avoid apostrophes in transliteration/conlanging
> unless absolutely necessary...there's so many uses!
Well, I didn't mention it earlier, but in Ajuk an apostrophe is used to
indicate vowels that have been dropped in informal speech - for example,
my first name is "Roberet" /robere:t/ in formal Ajuk, but in informal
speech it could become "Rob'ret" /robre:t/ - it basically indicates an
ommited sound the ommision of which is not valid in formal speech.

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Robert