Re: Characters (was: Nice comment, Adam! (was: beautiful scripts))

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 03:17:18 -0400, Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
wrote:

>A related  question:  Those of you who have conalngs with bizarre
>phonologies (or no "phon"ology), what do you do with foreign names?  I mean
>if you come upon the name "John" and your langage has no vowels or stops
>(just for example) what do you do?  What if your conlang is based on a
>different modality?  ASL (not a conlang, I know) either fingerspells or
>invents a new name.  TSL (Taiwan Sign Language) just uses the signs for the
>Chinese characters used to write the name.
Chispa has no nasals, "h", or "l", so representing the name "Herman Miller"
is a bit of a problem. I suppose "Urwa Wiru" is about as close as I could
get, and even that sounds distinctly foreign to Chispa phonology.

I often sidestep the issue of representing my name by adopting a name in
the other language (Yietazai in Chispa, Talanor in Galtani Elvish, Khilnik
in Tirelhat). "Herman" rarely sounds good in any language. "John" happens
to work well in Tirelhat (Xhan or Xhon, depending on dialect), but it'd be
tricky in Chispa (Ch'at? Ch'aru?).

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