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Re: Further digression (was Re: Can realism be retro-fitted?)

From:Daniel Lawrence <daniel@...>
Date:Saturday, January 20, 2007, 2:33
Hello Conlangers!

I join a few days ago, after putting it off for a few years :-)

Eugene --

It looks like BIG5 as evidenced by this line in the message header:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=BIG5; format=flowed

Now back to lurking...

Best,

~ Daniel

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 08:40 +0800, Eugene Oh wrote:
> There's some problem with the encoding in your message -- the phonetic > symbols appear as nonsense characters -- what encoding did you use to > write this? So that I can use the right decoding for it. > > Eugene > > 2007/1/20, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>: > > --- Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> xi豕 le: > > > > > <digression> Writing /ly/ and /ny/ as _lyu_ and > > > _nyu_ would be perfectly possible without other > > > changes of Pinyin, and would do away with the need > > > for _邦_.</digression> > > > > But then you'd get ambiguity across word boundaries, > > especially because few people bother to pay attention > > to spacing in writing Pinyin (because H角nzi, of > > course, almost never uses spaces). > > > > For the sake of example, let's use /sh芋ny迆/ > > [s\an.Hy], 'at the mountain', and /sh芋ni迆/ > > [s\a.nioU], 'kill the cow'. However, these examples > > are highly contrived (as in, I doubt these phrases are > > even grammatically correct), and only show up between > > /n/ and the /iu/ and /yu/ pair anyways. > > > > Personally, I think it makes more sense to write the > > syllables /n邦/ and /l邦/ as /nuu/ and /luu/, > > respectively. It leads to no major ambiguities in > > writing, even if you ignore spacing entirely, and it's > > the usual work-around used in Chinese word-processors > > (those that use a Pinyin input, anyways). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Der frhe Vogel f鄚gt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de > >