Re: Die, artlanger scum!

> >     ¡ morda en djuu, artiileg0 skaam !
> >     /mor\.da: en dju: ar\.ti:leg@o skVm/
>Writing /V/ as "aa" strikes me as weird, partic'larly since the other
>orthographic doubles represent long vowels.
The same convention is sometimes used when the Oklahoma dialect of Tsalagi
(Cherokee) is transcribed in a Latin alphabet:
/a/ -> [a] but /aa/ -> [V] when /aa/ results from suffixing /a/ to /a/
even though other double vowels are double length:
/i/ -> [i] but /ii/ -> [i:]

(shrug) Perhaps chosen to introduce an anomalous element to the orthography
and make his conlang less unnaturally regular? (Something at which I
religously fail - all of mine are far too regular).


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