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Re: the world needs another English like I need another...

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 22:47
Danny Wier wrote:
> > Has anybody purposely designed a conlang with the intention to be > incongruent to its own orthography as possible? Which I'm *kinda* > doing in Exian....
Lachuju, a descendant of Uatakassi, uses a heavily modified version of the Kassi syllabry, becoming a mixture of a syllabry, a syllabic alphabet, and a true alphabet. There will also be ambiguities and redundancies. It probably won't be *as* bad as English, but it will pretty difficult. Actually, there are three minor, and very rare, ambiguities in Uatakassi. [tSiwi]-[tSwi], [dZiwi]-[dZwi], and [Ciwi]-[Cwi] are not distinguished between. However, the second of each of those pairs is extremely rare, so it creates very little problem. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42