Re: Q & X

>On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:50:51PM ?, Tero Vilkesalo wrote:
>> Hi to all!>
Welcome Tero [vilke'salo] though I suspect the correct pronunciation would
accent the first syllable.....?
>
>[snip]
>> You can say I'm "bitten by the conlang bug". But I like many kinds of
>> creative work. Currently, and probably in the future as well, my primary
>> interest will be composing music, art music that is. I am a composition
>> student in the Sibelius Academy, which is the only music university in
>> Finland. That means somewhere in the future I might well be composing for
>> living. (That IS possible, at least in Finland, for the most
distinguished.)
>
H.S. Teoh wrote:
>Cool! I'm a computer science major, but almost majored in music
>composition. I still do improvisation and composition in my free time. I
>write mainly in the classical genre; if you're interested, I'd like to
>discuss anything about composition (off-list, though, to keep the amount
>of off-topic stuff here at a sane level). I'm a big fan of Jean Sibelius,
>also a Finn. I guess that's what prompted me to respond to you :-)>
Likewise.  Poor Sibelius got lost for much of the later atonal 20th century
but seems to be coming back. Personal favorite:  4th symphony.

>> And now to a real question. Which sounds do you write with the letter Q
or X
>> in your a priori conlangs with Latin alphabet? >
Generally I avoid them.  Too confusing.  They have perfectly good values in
phonetics, but only linguists and conlangers appreciate them.
Interestingly, my first draft of Kash used a Spanish-based orthography, with
"j" for [x], now "h", and "x" for [S], now "sh".  In the Kash font I
created, the q-key gives the "ñ" character, and x gives the "sh" character,
but that's just for convenience.

(Oh dear.  This msg. may appear garbled, probably because I used Teoh's msg.
to reply to.  Anyhow, THIS is sent in "western")