Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

Muke Tever wrote:

> If we were going to be sensible, we'd not do it as the Chinese do
> it but as the Japanese do it, and have one sign with several
> readings--for English, we'd have to have native readings,
> French/Latin readings, and Greek readings for most characters.
> e.g., the sign for 'light' would have:
>
> Anglo-yomi  'light'
> Roma-yomi   'luc-'
>             'lu-' in lumen/lumin- [probably not 'luna-' though]
>             'lumière'  [nanori only]
> Hellen-yomi 'phot-'
>
> We'd also need to keep alphabet as okurigana, too, so:
> å…‰       "light"h
> å…‰ent    "lucent"
> å…‰id     "lucid"
> å…‰minous "luminous"
> å…‰on     "photon"
> 光書s    "photographs" (or somesuch)

Hey!  This reminds me of something I've invented, not as a conlang, but
as one of my note-taking habits... I always play around with different
ways of writing English when I take notes, with variations ranging from
respellings and additional characters (like thorn, which we never
should have lost) to the relevant ones are where I've created symbols
whose values can be either phonetic or semantic.   The best example is
probably a 5-pointed star, which I used especially in my first year
when I took an astronomy course.

Its primary signification is STAR  (the word) when used alone.

Used phonetically, it can stand for /st/.

It can also stand for STELL- in Latinate words.  I can't remember if
I've ever used it for ASTRO- in Greek-derived words.

Using the asterisk to represent it, these are some possibilities, all
of which I actually used in my notes:


* = star; *s = stars
*quakes = starquakes

*ellar = stellar
la* = last
*ill =  still
a*ronomy =  astronomy
*ructur = structure

Hmm, I can't find examples where I used it to stand for "stell-".  I
thought there were some.  Anyways, I also used the sign for "sun"
(circle with dot in middle) for both "sun" and "sol-" as in "solar".


I also use the greek letter phi for
(1) "ph" spelling [f]
(2) PHONE, PHONO-, and PHON-  in connection with linguistics

and the greek letter mu for
(1) "mor"
(2) mora (standard linguistic usage, I know)

so MORPHEME can come out as MU-PHI-eme

Rachel



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