Re: CHAT: Bob's Introduction

In a message dated 2/28/2000 10:11:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
robert@APEXWOOD.COM writes:

    Hello Bob:  sounds like a good project.

<< 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?>>
    My feeling would be, use the Roman alphabet as far as possible, with an
IPA explanation for anything that departs from it.

<< In my language the disagree somewhat, as I use
 x to represent a voiced velar fricative (I forget the symbol), >>
    Mighn't that be confusing, since x is the IPA symbol for the voiceless
velar fric.? (The voiced counterpart is lower-case gamma.)  Will there be
both voiceless and voiced velar fricatives? Then if you're willing to use
digraphs, _kh_ and _gh_; or _x_ for voiceless, with something from Special
Characters window for the voiced? (Won't work in e-mail, which is why most
people here seem to use G).

 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. >>
    Didn't this list just start a FAQ?  Haven't look yet myself, so perhaps
there are no FAQs yet......