Re: My name in Rokbeigalmki, and my ideas for shorthand/code/etc...

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel A. Wier wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:31:35 -0400 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
> writes:
>
> > > Danny Wier /d&:ni: wI@R/ (R is supposed to be the retroflex glide?)
> > > Rokbeigalmki (?): Déní Wihgh
> >
> > Chevraqis:
> > Danny Wier = Dani Uir
>
> Of course, if anybody lacks a W in their language, they can substitute a
> V.  FWIW, my surname is *properly* spelled [Mac an] Mhaoir /we:r/, Gaelic
> for "son of the major".
In that case, Danny Wier = Dani Vir
:-)

<shaking head>  I wish I didn't have such a boring surname.

> > In my personal note-taking "shorthand," I use determinatives à la
> > what
> > little I've read of hieroglyphics.  So "com" without anything means
> > "communications," "com" with a Chinese-like-man-symbol is
> > "community,"
> > "com with a misdrawn sickle and hammer above it (I couldn't remember
> > just
> > what the USSR flag looked like at the time and now it's just a habit
> > to
> > draw it wrong) is "communist," etc.  Nothing so interesting as what
> > you've done, though!
>
> That sounds like Rap Lin Rie, Bob Petry's project to revive Dutton
> Speedwords.  (What happened to him anyhow?)  Call it "abbreviated
> Esperanto", since you have one- and two-letter words representing the
> most common words, including particles, from languages like French,
> English, German, Italian and what not.  (I think I remember _a_ meaning
> "at", _q_ meaning "what").
OC half my abbreviations are taken from the dumbest sources, like
roleplaying game abbreviations (str for strength, etc.).  I've
occasionally used stuff from French or German when convenient.  However,
only really frequently used words get abbreviated.

> I still have to revive and work out what I remember about what I came up
> with; it was a few years ago.  I also have to adjust the basic premises.
> I don't even know how many con-shorthands I'm gonna come up with.
>
> But I'll keep y'all posted, naturally...
Will they be up on the web?  I'd love to be using a more efficient
shorthand system than my own homebrew.  :-)

YHL