Re: Degaspregos
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 9, 2001, 22:14 |
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Am 09.12.01, Yoon Ha Lee yscrifef:
> On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 09:35 , Christopher B Wright wrote:
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> > First, you have about 35 letters. That means you have to make digraphs in
> > plenty and perhaps use some diacritical marks, both of which I try to
> > limit. Either it makes typing long ("is that alt+0235, or alt+0233?"), or
> > it makes the word uglier since it contains punctuation marks. (My two
> > main conlangs have 23 and 20 letters respectively, and only one has
> > digraphs or diphthongs. Neither uses diacriticals.)
> >
> :-p My opinion-based comment on this is: what if you like digraphs,
> diacriticals, or both?
I don't hold with the lot of em. Too foreign. So...my languages
tend to get by with several sounds corresponding to one letter
(or letter combinations); and sometimes several different letters
corresponding to one sound. Byzantine, but in some way satisfying!
> Math illiteracy affects 8 of every 5 people.
Well, 9 times out of eight, these stats are made up
half the time anyway!
By the way, I think the 'official' word is "innumeracy".
Padraic.
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