[CONLANG] þe getisbyrg adres

Please don't!

It doesn't look like an American dialect, and it's confusing me! :P
|mezýr|, seemingly /mEzjur\/, for 'measure' /mEZ@r\/?
And |ný| /nju/ for 'new'?  I can barely *pronounce* that, let alone use
it in everyday speech! ;)

Really cool alternate spelling idea, though.  I like how the vowel
qualities are generally based on English's own pronunciation of them,
as opposed to IPA/pseudo-Spanish pronunciations.  My old IRC friend who
invented the conlang Vendi /vEndaj/ also had modified |e| and |a| for
/i:/ and /ej/, respectively, although he used a macron, or a following
apostrophe in ASCII-only environments.  I usually used a grave accent
when i conversed with him in Vendi.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "An orbit, after all, is just a plummet that keeps missing."
      ~ earth, by david brin

On Aug 2, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> How much must we pay Dubyah to institute this?
>                                              Andreas

> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>> þe getisbyrg adres
>> getisbyrg, pensilvánia
>> nóvembr 19, 1863
>>
>> fôr skór and seven jérs agó úr faþrs bråt forþ on þis kontinent, a ný
>> nášyn, konsévd in libyrti, and dedikátid to þe propósišyn þat ål men
>> ar
>> kré-átid ekwål.
>>
>> nú wé ar eñgáçd in a grát sivil wår, testiñ hweþr þat nášyn, or eni
>> nášyn so konsévd and so dedikátid, kan loñ endýr. wé ar met on a grát
>> batl-féld of þat wår. wé háv kym to dedikát a poršyn of þat féld, as a
>> fínal restiñ plás for þós hu hér gáv þeyr lívs þat þat nášyn mít lív.
>> it
>> is åltogçeþr fitiñ and propr þat wé šud dô þis.
>>
>> byt, in a larçr sens, wé kan not dedikát -- wé kan not konsekrát -- wé
>> kan not haló -- þis grúnd. þe bráv men, líviñ and ded, hu strygld hér,
>> háv konsekrátid it, far abov úr pur púyr to ad or detrakt. þe world
>> wil
>> litl nót, nor loñ rémembr hwat wé sá hér, byt it kan névr forget hwat
>> þá
>> did hér. it is for ys þe líviñ, raþr, to bé dedikátid hér to þe
>> ynfínišd
>> work hwic þá hu fåt hér háv þys far so nóbli advansd. it is raþr for
>> ys
>> to bé hér dedikátid to þe grát task remániñ béfor ys -- þat from þés
>> onord ded wé ták inkrésd dévošyn to þat kås for hwic þá gáv þe last
>> ful
>> mezýr of dévóšyn -- þat wé hér híli résolv þat þés ded šål not háv díd
>> in ván -- þat þis nášyn, yndr god, šål háv a ný byrþ of frédom -- and
>> þat góvyrnment of þe pépel, bí þe pépel, for þe pépel, šål not pyriš
>> from þe yrþ.
>>
>> --
>>
>> /BP 8^)
>> --
>> B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
>>
>>          Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
>>                                              (Tacitus)
>>
>

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