Re: Hi there & Blitherings

Barbara Barrett writes:
 > Hi All ;-)
 >
Hello.

 >
 > I use an old Wordpro/DTP dedicated cpm computer for my script work
 > because the programmes are way more versatile than anything available on
 > the PC or mac who's scripting systems are rather clunky and restricted
 > by comparison.
 > I could go on about their advantages (each font has integrated
 > Latin/Greek/ Cyrillic/Scandavian/Maths characters and about 20-odd
 > accents that can be placed over ANY character! The DTP prog each font
 > has 96 used defined characters and 12 accents that can be placed
 > over/under any character!), but I won't bore thee ;-) except to say the
 > wordpro program is available for the PC, it's called Locoscript
 > Professional, but only a chopped down version of the DTP prog
 > (Microdesign PC) is available for the PC which alas saves in it's own
 > format, and only has 36 user defined letters and no accents ;-[.
 > Neither is compatible with any application except each other :-(.
 >

Locoscript... now that takes me back.  At the risk of turning conlang
into alt.folklore.computers (which it nearly did, a week or so ago) I
used to use Locoscript to do my primary school homework, on one of
these
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=189

I'm not sure it had those capabilities back then, though.  (Not that
I'd have noticed if it had...)

(I'm just copying in from another post here, although I'm sure Emacs/VM
has a better way of doing this which I should learn)
> with /wIT/ and width /wIdD/
That's a little strange.  My "with" is /wID/ and my "width" poorly
defined.  I think I generally say /witT/.

I am confident that there is a phonemic distinciton between /T/ and
/D/ in my dialect.  Whether I was really "aware" of the distinction
until I read about it is hard to say - but I instantly recognized the
difference from the examples given, and I'd certainly have noticed if
someone had started changing them.