Re: Alphabet

On Friday 02 November 2001 04:38, John Laury wrote:

> Do most people here
> tend to create new alphabets or do they stick to
> established writing systems?
I made the first thing in Ilaini (a variant of a Dutch children's
song) on the bike and wrote it down in the Roman alphabet, more or
less phonetically, when I got home. Then I made up some more words
(and already had names for people and places) that I also wrote down
in the Roman alphabet.

All the time I knew that Valdyans didn't write like "us", but had
their own script; I didn't work that out until much later, however.

I still use romanization to work on texts and translations, because
it speaks to me more; I sometimes use the script to do fair copies. I
should really be using it more, but I do most things on the computer,
and the font doesn't type well (anyway, it doesn't work on my present
installation, but that's being worked on).

   Irina

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