Re: Alphabet
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 2, 2001, 23:23 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> I heard it called the "plosive" mark in James Heisiger's book on learning
> hiragana. :-p I like this feature of Japanese a lot, though I haven't
> had an opportunity to steal it for a conscript yet.
An early version of Uatakassi's syllabry had a "fricative mark", but I
decided to abandon it, as there was no justification for it. The script
was created for Uatakassi, not a borrowing, and there are no systematic
stop-fricative alternations, whereas Japanese's voicing mark is very
handy because of the frequent voicing in compounds (e.g., hira+kana ->
hiragana)
> I am amazed by those who devise syllabaries and logographic conscripts.
The Traderfolk on my conworld use a logographic script, but I don't
think I'll ever work it out. :-)
> THAC0 is NOT a Mexican food.
What is THACO?
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