Re: The joys </sarcasm> of using someone else's computer

From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>

> Capital letters are the corresponding Greek lowercase letter, requiring
the
> Symbol font. <'> is a simple apostrophe/single quote, <`> is a grave
accent,
> and <"> is a double quote.
I've decided to change that to:

<` > (reverse apostrophe) = ejectives (p` t` c` ç` tL` k` q`; L = lambda),
voiced uvular stop/fricative for G` (gamma), pharyngeal fricatives as h` and
`.
<'> = palatized consonant: c', k', n', l', r'. Now for the ejective
palatized affricate, which order should I have: c`' or c'`?
<"> = still schwa; <"i> and <"u> are the two high central vowels

This would allow languages like Russian that have palatized or "soft"
consonants to use apostrophes rather than a following <y> which would be
confused with a vowel -- which would you prefer for "five", |p'at'| or
|pyaty| or even |pjatj|?

Also, I don't have any conlang projects with clicks yet, but the vertical
stroke would be a universal click mark, with the following letter indicating
click type: |t for dental, |c for alveolar, |l for lateral, |ç for
palatal/retroflex; |nd for nasalized, |d for voiced, |t` for glottalized....

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