Re: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton"
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 4, 2004, 15:03 |
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:19:31 +0200, taliesin the storyteller
<taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
>* Pascal A. Kramm said on 2004-10-04 02:08:44 +0200
>> I've already posted this to the auxlang list, but thought I'd post it
>> here as well because of the broader audience.
>
>Well, this is the place to discuss the linguistic sides of language, not
>advocate use of new languages. As long as you can stick to that, no
>problem.
Sure, no problem.
>The script is slow to write with all those dots, and many of the
>dot-vowels will become swooshes in use. Furthermore, it is easy to put
>the dots on the wrong letter (just think of where the dot on the i might
>end up in handwriting!) so there will be lots of misunderstandings and
>unneccessary ambiguity. Basically I think the script needs more work.
The vowel dots were borrowed from Hebrew, unchanged. I have never heard an
Israeli complain that they become swooshes in use or something...
I also don't understand why it should be easy to put the vowels under the
wrong letter?
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