Re: English notation/conlang scripts

At 06:14 AM Saturday 6/30/01, you wrote:
>I just thought that with all this debate about the
>english notation system I would say, with perhaps a
>few small exceptions, I would like to keep the English
>script the same. Can anyone suggest a truly neccesary
>reason for changing it? - it seems to be doing quite
>well as it is - and it would lose much of its depth
>and what beauty it has if the script was made regular.
I appreciate it as it is myself. The rationale for changing it is usually
to help learners (and with the steady rise of English-as-second-language in
the world's population, this is a very significant matter).


>One thing I did want to ask though was who here, when
>using their conlang, works first in the lang's native
>script as opposed to the Roman alpha..
I used to do that a lot, when most of my work was on paper. But now, where
I want to keep most everything on the computer, it's more convenient to use
the Roman transliteration.

Cheers, Tom



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