Re: Another Silindion Poem!

John Cowan <jcowan@...> writes:

> Elliott Lash wrote:
>
> > I wrote yet another poem in Silindion.
>
>
> One little typographical point.  In most languages using the
> Latin alphabet, a diaeresis when marking the fact that two vowels
> are not a diphthong is placed on the second vowel, not the
> first.  There is one natlang exception that I know of (but
> I can't remember what it is :-) ).  JRRT also didn't
> consistently do this in romanizing Quenya.
>
> If you are using the diaeresis to mark something other than
> separation, as German does, of course this point has no force.
>
An of course I'm not doing this. Diaeresis on a vowel is used to indicate a
closer/tenser variant of the vowel. Now, the fact that this happens to only
occur before another vowel with <i> isn't going to stop me from marking it,
since it's still really asthetically pleasing. With <e> it happens before a
vowel and at the end of the word. When the same sound occurs between
consonants, it is written <ei>

Elliott