Re: Betreft: Re: New Lang: Leropho (LONG !)

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rob Nierse wrote:

> You're damn right. Fun thing is, 'ps' is there, but not mentioned in the
> inventory! Both Ed and me must have overlooked it.
> Note that quite soon we abandoned 'looking Greekish'.
> We still want (in the end) use the Greek alphabet. Since we make
> 'pt' a phoneme, we have to make a sign to represent it.
> Do you have any ideas of a symbol that can represent 'pt' and looks
> Greekish (don't ask me "what is greekish to you!") ?
That's easy. Take pi and add an extra leg. (Alternate
description a pi-tau ligature).
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Voila.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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