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

--- Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> wrote:
> I've always found it interesting how the Chinese
> Bible handles all the
> foreign names by running a line down the right side
> (or under in
> bi-linguals) of the characters as a notice to the
> reader -- Attention these
> characters don't mean anything.  They're just
> sounds.  Does anyone do
> anything like this in a conlang?  Punctuate to
> highlight transliterations?
Vya:a:h, similar to Japanese katakana, holds a
separate character system for foreign names and an
word to be emphasized.  Dissimilar to Japanese
katakana, however, this separate character system in
Vya:a:h is not intended for "any" foreign-borrowed
word.

Matt33

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