Re: 500 words!

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:27:07AM -0500, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> > Today marks a memorable occasion: the Ebisedian lexicon passed the
> > 500-word limit! It has taken longer than I had hoped, but finally it has
> > arrived. The two entries that pushed it over the barrier are:
> >
> > jhumii'n [Zu"mi:n] - n. "sleep", esp. a deep sleep.
> >
> > kujh0'me [ku"ZAm&] - v. "to sleep", or "to put to sleep".
> >
> > The updated lexicon is, of course, available from the usual location:
>
> Congratulations! Two questions: sometimes you use iota (lexicon), other
> times dotless i (Words of Esani the Wise). Is either preferred or is it
> just random?
Well, dotless i was from earlier renditions of the orthography. Later I
switched to iota because in the chosen font, two dotless i's look too much
like a u from a distance. So yes, iota is preferred (and is the "official"
letter), even though I always think of it as a dotless i.

> And also, IIRC your lexicon is at least partially generated.
Not really... it's written in LaTeX with some macros to markup different
logical structures in each entry.

> Is it at all useful to languages other than Ebisedian? (With or without
> some hacking... It'd be nice to be able to automate, for instance,
> alphabetical ordering...)
[snip]

Actually I don't have automatic alphabetical ordering, although with some
effort this could be done. What I *do* have is a utility that verifies
that the lexicon entries are in the correct Ebisedian alphabetic order.
I'm not sure how useful this would be to anyone else, since it is very
specific to Ebisedian orthography.


T

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