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Re: pseudo welsh transcription system

From:Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 11:33
Peter Penned;Clark wrote:
>Bloody brilliant! I love it--although how would you transcribe /&/ (would > that be /.ae/ in CB?) and /E/?
Yes that's /.ae/ in CB and /E/ is /E/ (or /;3/ which is a matter of choice), for the ash, if I ever get enough reposnses from users of various platforms I may just decide that if the system font's ash shows up in all platforms that Æ and æ will be used "straight". I stand ready to be corrected on this but although I've come accoss languages that distinguish in minmal pairs /a/ and /@/ I've found not that pair /a/ and /æ/ in this way - seems to be a matter of accent.
> And what about using "si" for /S/? Of course, that might lead to a mix-up > between "seap" and "sheep". Let's see: siip vs. siiip? But then again, > vowel length isn't phonemic, so maybe sip vs. siip.
No, I really wanted to keep the "h"s in the digraphs just for the look of things (after the modern Irish bh and mh) and to increase the number a ascenders in words to help their visual distictivness.
>Were ieou here uhen I introduced mie pseudo-Irish orthographie? >Peter
Alas no. But I'd love to see it ;-) Barbara

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Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>