Dimel (WAS: Re: A question on writing/typing)

> Well, unless you describe your alphabet in greater detail, preferably
> listing it (using a description of the characters you can't show, like
> saying "{Greek alpha flipped around}" or something like that.  You coul=
d
> try using diacritics, which we normally indicate by placing after the
> letter, like e^ for =EA, since some e-mail readers will see =EA as some=
thing
> unpredictable.
Oh yeah--duh ^_^ (ever since school's started my brain's been shot) Well,=
 a
brief background on this language--it's called Dimel (or Drme'l under thi=
s
system of alphabet), which is short for DIMEnsional Language..basically i=
t's
a Con(art)lang of a Conlang..a bunch of guys who could travel between
dimensions thought they should come up with a 'universal' language for th=
em
(so they could communicate and stuff ^_^), so this isn't designed to be a
natural language ^_^..as most of the people spoke English or another
language that used similar pheonomes (or whatever they're called), that's
the phoenome set they drew from..here's the alphabet:
(Capitol-Lowercase-Sound) (I don't know the technical symbols for these
sounds, so bear with me) (the ^ after a letter means a letter with a ^ ov=
er
it..the ' symbolizes a whole new character)

A - a - o as in ocular
AE (that symbol that combines them) - ae (same principle) - ai as in air =
(A'
and d' in ASCII)
B - b - b as in born
C - c - ch as in much
C^ - c^ - h as in happy
(capitol delta) - (lowercase pi) - ou as in could (D' and d')
D - d - d as in dear
E - e - a as in lake
(capitol sigma) - (lowercase elipsion) - e as in ten (E' and e')
F - f - f as in four
G - g - g as in good
H - h - r as in rage
I - i - i as in irate or nice
J - j - j as in jump
J^ - j^ - /zh/ (I can't think of a word with this sound offhand)
K - k - c as in car or cage
L - l - l as in lump
M - m - m as in much
(uppercase phi) - (lowercase mu) - see note afterword (M' and m')
N - n - n as in never
O - o - o as in open or note
P - p - p as in purse
Q - q - a as in apple or cap
(uppercase gamma) - r - i as in igloo or in (R or r)
S - s - as in sample
S^ - s^ - z as inzipper
T - t - t as in ten
(uppercase theta) - (lowercase theta) - th as in thin or then (T' or t')
U - u - oo as in spoon
V - v - v as in vixen
W - w - a as in call or fall, also au as in cause (same sound)
X - x - u as in shut or cut
Y - y - y as in yes
Y^ - y^ - w as in water
(uppercase lambda) - (lowercase lambda) - ee as in teeth (Z' or z')
Z - z - sh as in shut

Any one have any comments, suggestions, etc? But a note on M' and m'...th=
is
is like, the intermittent vowel sound. In dictionaries it is represented =
by
an upside-down e, and is like the u in circus..it's a vowel sound not rea=
lly
pronounced, but is used to separate sounds..most often, it would end up
sounding like the u in shut or so...though mainly it's whatever sounds be=
st
in the word (as my t' is also), as the accented syllable is whichever sou=
nds
best in the word (given that this is one part I have difficulty
understanding in English)

The sentence structure is S-V-O, like english. An example sentence would =
be:

Ki krtobe kim
(I) (am) (me)

I don't really have my verb lexicon yet--almost all the verbs I have are
violent (to destroy, to bleed, to make war upon, to betray), so that
sentence is about as well as I can do right now ^_^ as I said before--any
comments, suggestions, questions, etc. Would be appreciated ^_^

-Axiem
-axiem