Re: USAGE: Adapting non-Latin scripts
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 16:05 |
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Michael Adams wrote:
>Is the Latin characters really that good for English? As well as are they good
>for your conlang, or is there a form of "graphics" that could do your
>language better?
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Uh.
You have to provide design goals to ask a question like that.
Like, "Is the Latin alphabet really that good for [narrowly phonetically
describing one dialect of] English?" No, it's not really. That's what
IPA is for.
"Is the Latin alphabet really that good for [providing representations
of words that have some relation to their pronunciation, disambiguating
homophones, and providing hints towards etymology (and thus affix
compatibility) while working in a limited character set with words of]
English?" Yes, it's pretty good for that.
--
Shreyas