Re: Featural code based on the Latin alphabet

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:59:14 +0100 Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> writes:
> As a featural code is the most unambiguous and flexible manner of
> representing pronunciation, and the Latin alphabet is universally
> available
> on a simple computer keyboard, it has occurred to me that the most
> logical
> writing system possible is to use the Latin alphabet as a featural
> code. I
> would therefore like to propose such a code.
<snip>

> Some work is still needed on this, and any suggestions are welcome,
> but as
> you can see, we can already replace the chaos of English orthography
> with
> the simple, logical
>
> tiu tbvii euowv nveuot tiu tbvii, hdvat ihv hdvey tkwbvehthxeynv:
> hqwbvehdvewv it ihv nveuoeuotbvwlvewv inv hdvey nbvainvtv tiu
> hiuhfey hdvey
> hwlinkvhv anvtv awveuowbs euohfv aiuotwveetxvhxviuh
> hfeuowvtwxviuiunv,
> euowr tiu teetk auauwvnbvhv akvenvht a hii euohfv twviutbeywlhv
> anvtv tbvai
> euotbeoueouhvinkv envtv hdvenbv.
looks sort of like my orthography that i came up with for vknyknj (also a
featural code based on the latin alphabet, but just made to fit the
phonology of the language, see my sig for a short sample)... i think it's
interesting, but featural codes like this are very difficult for people
who know the latin alphabet already... probably very few people would be
able to read "tkwbvehthxeynv" in less than 10 seconds...
a language i still haven't named, the one from which i get wonderful
words like ggnsgngsbd [gugulaNexebidi] (googolgigglabyte, it might be sn
instead of ns for [l], i'm not sure), bdgdgn [bidigudiNe] (diminutive of
"byte-thing", the bluetooth name of my sony clíe), and gngstk [Nexeteku]
("really big-storage device", used as volume lable of my memory stick) is
semi-featural...

> Pete
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