Re: My new unnamed project (Fanglish)?

At 4:23 pm -0600 4/2/00, Daniel A. Wier wrote:
>Okay, pathetic name, I know.  Here's what I got so far...
I don't think I'm seeing all the symbols correctly.

[...]
>c  k, s (before e, i)
>Á  s (before a, o, u)
I guess that should be {ç} (c-cedilla) but I see it as upper case A with
acute accent.  (Wonder how others will see my c-cedilla?)

[....]
>gu g (before e, i)
>g¸ gw (used only before e, i)
What's this?   Is that second symbol, which I see as a lonely little
detached cedilla, the u-diaeresis or is it something else?

[....]
>Ò  nj
Guess what I see as upper case o-grave, is my {ñ} (n-tilde).

[...]

Why in this day & age is it not possible to use these symbols safely in
emails and on the web.  We have the technology - seems somewhere along the
line, some people are not keen on its being used.

>
>Basically, this isn't so much a conlang as it's a rude mix of natural
>languages.  Any ideas for a name?  (My ideas are 'Fanglish' or the
>significantly ruder 'Bastard'.)
Yes, but 'Bastard' I recall was coined by another conlanger two or three
years back for his conlang.

I don't recall his name & I guess he's left the list but IIRC the number 4
figured significantly in it: four vowels, 16 (4*4) consonants - and it has
it own 'four square' script.  I seem to recall also some tie-up with
Jungian concepts, but I may be mistaken on that.

Ray.



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