Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

At 01:32 14.11.2003, Isidora Zamora wrote:

>We got really lucky here.  Índumom Tovlaugadóis (more easily pronounced and
>typed by its Trehelish name - Cwendaso)
Is it [tSwen"da:so] as I tend to pronounce it.
(Tóó liberal doses of Sanskrit romanization will
do that to you...)

Actually I even say [ts\Hen-]...


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To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

At 07:00 14.11.2003, Paul Bennett wrote:

>Dammit, dammit, dammit.
>
>Once upon a time, I was able to post UTF-8, and have the listserver return
>unto me a perfect ungarbled copy of what I had posted. Now, it seems, the
>situation has changed, and not for the better. All I see above are what
>looks like UTF-8 trying to be read by a program that isn't UTF-8-aware. I
>haven't changed mail clients, and I suspect (for no good reason) that the
>listserv software hasn't changed. Bugger, and very probably drat. It's
>worse than just unknown handling of UTF-8. Single characters are showing up
>as sequences of up to 7 (or 8?) characters.
When I get this kind of garble (i.e. often) I can
have Eudora save the message to a text-file, then
open that file as UTF-8 in MS Word.  Not perfect,
but I thought someone might like to try the equivalent.

Question: anyone have any idea on how to write a
perl program which transcribes given Unicode characters
into ASCII or Latin-1 characters or sequences?



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To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

At 07:08 14.11.2003, Muke Tever wrote:

>The aforementioned Atlantic-Kirumb word for language <nânné> is
>historically a derivative of the word for 'name', <amné> -- original
>Kirumb: <noma> 'name', <nomní> something like 'namery'.  [The weird form
>of modern <amné> is due to a highly irregular ablaut in the original:
><nom-> core vs <amin-> oblique.]  The Kirumb speakers apparently
>recognized different languages as being essentially 'the same' merely with
>different names for things...
Mentalesians?


/BP 8^)
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