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Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, April 7, 2002, 22:36
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>Well, as you may remember, Danny Wier's message about languages with >orthographies as incongruent as possible reminded me of a language I
invented
>nearly 10 years ago, in reaction to the Gaelic language I have just
discovered (Snip lots of wild and crazy stuff)
>(what is nice about such an
orthography is that you can change a lot in the pronunciation without changing the written words :)) > Aha! The secret of English orthography.
> >So what do you think? Should I revive this language (making some changes,
like
>adding some new sounds like [I] and [G] :)), and changing some things in
the
>verbal system) or is it hopeless? And what do you think of the orthography?
A very amusing and utterly perverse orthography. :-))) I suppose one could get used to it...... I am reminded of young Frankenstein discovering his father's notes.......Revive it at your peril :-)))) (But why not??)

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