Joe Hill wrote:
> This is a bump, cause no-one replied to me last time.
we were all struggling with the temptation to sing
"I dreamed I read a posting by Joe Hill last night ..."
er, never mind.
....
> w- pronouced as german 'ü'
why {w}? {y} is more usual. or {u}, if it's not used otherwise.
> s- as english
> s- as english 'sh'
eh?
> ?- as in polish '?'
unfortunately it's not in my font
> ? or ?- as english 'th' in 'thin'
> ? or ?- as english 'th' in 'then'
> f- as in japanese syllable 'fu'
> v- voiced version of above
> ?- as scottish 'ch'
conventionally /T D F B x/ respectively. (but go ahead and use {f v}
if the language does not also have labiodentals. does any natlang
distinguish /f/ and /F/?)
> x- as english
why a separate letter? is your newlang based on one that uses it a lot?
> The grammar is interesting, noun and verbs are without vowels,
> and cannot be pronounced, vowels are added in to distinguish case,
> nouns and verbs can then be pronounced.
something vaguely like Semitic then?
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