Re: CHAT: Bob's Introduction

At 22:00 28/02/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey hey!
>
Hi, and welcome to the list :) .

>
>I have a project coming up at school where I'm allowed to do more or
>less anything I want, and I'm considering developing a Conlang. I'm
>allowed to start the project before it is assigned, because I know the
>details about it already, because it is an assignment for enriched level
>students at my school for grades 9 to 11, so I did one last year and
>know the process.
>
A conlang as a school project? If only the schools I attended had allowed
such thing... :((

>I've started a very rough sketch of a language, but it's nowhere near
>complete enough to post here, I have to decide on quite a bit of the
>grammar and have at least some vocabulary to provide examples with. I'll
>post more on this as it develops.
>
Just do it!

>Anyways, some questions.
>
>1) When I post a sketch of a language, and I give the phonololgy, do I
>give just the IPA symbols, or do I use the alphabet I am using if it is
>a Roman alphabet as well as the IPA if they don't agree? I've only seen
>one language sketch since I came online, and the IPA and the alphabet
>used agreed in all cases. In my language the disagree somewhat, as I use
>x to represent a voiced velar fricative (I forget the symbol), as well
>as some other exceptions. I think that one stands out the most, though.
>
Just present the Roman alphabet with an IPA explanation, it will be enough
:) . When you have languages like me where the Roman transcription is far
enough from the actual pronunciation (like Chasmäöcho which is a real
orthographic hoax. Its name is pronounced /tSas'mawtS@/, but it's still
near to the orthography compared to other words :) ), just add an IPA
transcription of your examples between slashes. For languages with
correspondence one letter-one phoneme, it's useless though.

A voiced velar fricative? If only I had known IPA when I was your age, my
projects wouldn't have been so forget-worthy (I think it's a neologism of
mine, but you understand what I mean don't you? :))) ) ...

>2) The Conlang FAQ, or at least the URL I have of it, hasn't been
>updated since 1998. Has it been abandoned, is a new version still in
>development, or do I have the wrong adress for it? I have
>http://personalweb.sierra.net/~spynx/FAQ/index.html.
>
There is a developing FAQ on http://www.conlang.org, but I don't know how
far it is now.

>Well, thank you, and have a nice day.
>
You're welcome.

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

"Reality is just another point of view."

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