From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
> > Eh? It's *very* odd for a conlang to write {ei} for [E] and {e} for
> > [e].
> > Is that what you meant? Or did you confuse the phonetic symbols?
> Why is it weird? It's basically what French does! (okay, to get [e] you
have to
> add the acute accent: |é|, but [E] can definitely be written |ei| - along
with
> |ai|, |è|, |ê|, etc... :)) -) |e| for [e] and |ei| for [E] looks *very
> naturalistic* to me!
I have seen conlangs invented by English-speaking folks that have the value
/ai/ for |i|.
(I also noticed that a lot of people are using my suggested vertical lines
|x| for textual represenation instead of _x_, so apparently I've invented
something meaningful for once....)