Re: USAGE: Shaw alphabet (was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 9, 2006, 18:03 |
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On 6/9/06, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> > (You'll also see text-only postings in that mapping; without the font
> > information, you see "tekst HAt lUks lFk His" instead.
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> All of those mappings make some intuitive sense to me - except "F" for
> /ai/. What's up with that?
Where would you have put it?
I suppose DeMeyere set out to be as mnemonic as possibly, but
ultimately, some of the letters had to be "left-overs" and get
assigned to less-than-mnemonic letters. "F" was one such.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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