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Re: English notation/conlang scripts

From:Tom Tadfor Little <tom@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 3, 2001, 15:05
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Tadfor Little tom@telp.com Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA) Telperion Productions www.telp.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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