>From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
>Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:36:44 -0500
>
>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
<snip>
>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 :-)
He'd REALLY hate graavgaaln then. I have 52 consonants and 24 vowels!
>Right now my conlang's romanization is rather
>ugly,
Mine too. I hate the romanizations of most of my langs. The Latin alphabet
isn't even sufficient for Englishand then you try bto make it handle
Graavgaaln??? Yu-gly.
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..
Numbers? I havn't tried that one. And I've avoided caps, but I'm not
*completely* sure why. I have lots of doubled letters, but they all
represent different qualities, not length. And lots of other digraphs. At
least I agoided trigraphs in Graavgaaln.
But what can I do?? It's not MY
>fault that the Roman alphabet is so impoverished... :-P
>
It's those nasty Roman's fault. I mean they didn't even leave us with a
thorn or eth or a proper double-u. Stingey little conquerors.
>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)
>
Throw off the opression of mono-alphabetism! Embrace the multitude of
scripts! Import cirilic glyphs! Reclaim the greek! Put those Georgian
spaghetti slingers back to work!
Adam the weird
>
>T
>
>--
>Winners never quit, quitters never win. But those who never quit AND never
>win are idiots.
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