Re: English notation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 12:39 |
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Subject: Re: [CONLANG] English notation
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
BP Jonsson wrote:
> > & hwat dú ý þink?
>Quite successful in its own terms.
þanks. í went þrú sym pánz wiþ þ nótáxn v þ sibilantz béfor í hit on þ ídéa
v ýzing "ð" for /dZ/! í'm stil myling óver hweþr t introdýs "ç" for /S/
and ýz "x" for /Z/.
alsó í'm not kwít hapi wiþ þ présyrváxn v þ "ou" and "oi" dígrafz.
last byt not lést wyn mít b bóldr hwen it kymz t ríting /@/ wiþ "e" or
not at ål!
>I would have a few niggles,
such as "hw": the w ~ hw distinction has fallen in most dialects,
and even where it is preserved, the functional load is very low.
wel it mít b opxnl. í hapn t hav þ distinkxn in mí oun pronynsiáxn --
konxysli introdýs'd t help mé remembr spelings! :-)
> I particularly like the preservation of the Great Vowel Shift,
rather than trying to restore the "Continental" vowel values.
jes. eni atempt at *not* présyrving þ GVX z dúm'd bécåz it wud skrú yp
rélát'd wyrdz and forin wyrdz tú myc.
(Nou þat í'v ritn a bit in þ ském í fínd þat þ abréviáxn "w" xud be "wiþ"
raþr þan "wé". it xor helpz to aktýli ýz wynz ském! :-)
> Axel Wijk (the Regularized Inglish creator) was
careful to use both Longmans and Kenyon & Knott,
í ýz Longman'z, hwic kontánz bóþ aksentz. í rékomend it híli! (& í'm
fínding þat í'm ýzing it veri hevili as í rít þéz línz... :-)
>and even he had
to allow that some words will be spelled differently across the
Pond: e.g. "paath" vs. "path".
þat'z igzaktli hwí í cúz t ignor sym distinkxnz.
/BP 8^)>
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