Re: Degaspregos

On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:35:12PM -0500, Christopher B Wright wrote:
[snip]
> 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.)
Well... if you're in my shoes, with a conlang that has 27 consonants and 9
vowels, PLUS vowel length, nasalization, and (irregular) pitch accent, ...
something's gotta give :-) Right now my conlang's romanization is rather
ugly, with numerical glyphs and capital letters thrown in together with
some digraphs, doubling a vowel letter to indicate length, the feared
apostrophe to indicate high pitch, etc.. But what can I do?? It's not MY
fault that the Roman alphabet is so impoverished... :-P

To put it another way... why should I constrict my conlang with the
limitations of the Roman alphabet? I see no artistic reason to, only
pragmatic reasons. (And conlanging isn't exactly pragmatic :-P)


T

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