Re: xsampa for vowels and diphthongs

Isaac Penzev wrote:
> Ktabta Elyse Grasso:
>
>
>>I don't need enormous precision for depicting the vowel sounds in
>>Jouevyaix... the Shayanans have stingers and venom sacks in their
>>mouths, so the shapes of their oral cavities are affected by mood.
>
> Ssshnakesssh? I jzzhusst love sshnakessh...
Have you got a pet snake? I've always wanted a pet snake. I know someone
with two pet snakes, two pet lizards, a number of guinea pigs, and,
obviously, a varying amount of mice. Anyone with pet snakes is cool in
my books. (I imagine it'd be quite a burden on the electricity bill,
though, and then there's the whole feeding-the-snakes-on-live-mice thing.)

> My comment here is not on shmampa, but on spelling. When you *write* words
> by hand, |ii| and |ü|/|u"| will be definitely confused. It's almost a no-no
> in alphabet designing to have them both at one time, AFAIK.
Maybe the Is would develop dotlessly. But then you have the problem with
ii and u. So handwritten Us would like similar to the way I was taught
handwritten Vs (i.e. exactly the same except that in a u, you go down
and connect to the next letter from the bottom, whereas in a v, you
connect it the top). Vs and Us are much more interchangeable, generally.
Or W could be used for /v/. For /w/, should the phoneme exist, either
the V/U letter could be used, or we could use the wynn. I prefer the
latter. Wynn and P would then be somewhat similar, but bilabial stops
aren't used (much?), so that isn't much of an issue. If you wanted, I
could continue shuffling the sounds along, though, until eventually,
though the alphabet started off as normal Roman writing, it became
something extraordinarily odd (I feel a change to the Wydse orthography
coming on).

Anyway, given we don't have any creatures on Earth with stingers and
language, I doubt these characters even know of the Latin alphabet. (I
may've missed something though.)

Tristan.

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