Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:35, Joe Fatula wrote:
> From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
> Subject: Yogh (was Re: y sound)
>
>
> > Tristan (lover of dead characters. Hwair is another good one, though
> > it's only used for transliterations of Gothic. I may have to fix
> > that...)
>
> Yogh, thorn, edh, and ash are great, but wynn looks too much like p in
> handwriting.
I know. It's all a part of the chainshift the Pidse orthography
suffered. As you can see, when I asciify the Wynn, I use a P. This is
because, when Wynn was adopted to write W, p was found to be too similar
and a digraphy came to replace it, thus freeing P up in the
Asciification. And other stuff happened, too. I made a post about it a
while ago. I'll make a page about it on my website, too.

(I don't consider ash to be dead, not by a long shot. Nor eth or thorn.
Thank the Icelanders.)

>   Hwair is a neat one, but I'm not sure it'd have too much use
> in English.
Never suggested it would. I was thinking more of in a conlang.

> But I'm certainly a lover of dead characters as well.  Though
> in most circles, people would think of Romeo as a dead character...
Lol.

Tristan.