Re: notelangs

From: "Nokta Kanto" <red5_2@...>
> I'm curious, what tricks do you use in your private writing?
This is a sample of what my writing currently looks like:
http://frath.net/images/uijorn/texty.gif

The text should be familiar to anyone on this list... there are a couple of
mistakes though, kudos if you can find them :x)

I write with a variant of the Kirumb alphabet which has been sanded down over
time, to include letters necessary to English (B and W come to mind), letters
unnecessary to English but overdifferentiating pronunciation (like [k]-<ch> and
[tS]-<ch>), whimsical reintroductions (eth, thorn, yogh, phi), ligatures
becoming separate characters and mutating (in extreme cases, a ligature is old
enough that one of the characters it's based on has changed or been replaced;
cf. 'i' with 'ing' or 'c' with 'ck'), etc...  There are currently at least fifty
letters in the script.

Hmmm....
a b c ch[tS] ch[k] ck d e(sounded) e(silent) ee
f ff g gh i in ing ink j k
l ll m mm n[n] n[N] ng nk nn o
oo p ph pp q r rr s[s] s[S] sh
ss t th[T] th[D] tt u v w wh x
y z, at least... so, 52?

There is actually also a sign for [Z], but in writing English there's no way it
can appear, as there's no uniform spelling for it to replace!

    *Muke!
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