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Re: Translations: "Happy Holidays" and Language Quotes

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Monday, December 9, 2002, 5:07
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:29:33 -0800 Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
writes:
> Note that in the transcription of Asha'ille, a single apostrophe ' > is used > between vowels that must be pronounced separately, while a double > apostrophe " is used to indicate where letters have been deleted.
> -- > Arthaey
- That's sort of like what i do in Rokbeigalmki. Single apostraphes are used to connect certain case-prefixes to words: SA' = with ASH = me SA'ASH = with me Double apostraphes are used to connect the parts of abbreviations: ^AOLE^LESNAM = creation of language AO''LE = conlang, They're also used to mark the elision of the vowel of the case-prefixes mentioned above: S''ASH /saS/ = SA'ASH /sa?aS/ = with me But that's not usually marked, since it's considered only a spoken variant. You may say /saS/, but unless it's important for poetic meter or something like that you write |sa'ash|. -Stephen (Steg) "aSSayf, kasayf abyad..." (summer like a white sword...) ~ sally's quote in semi-alliterative arabic