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CHAT: English & "a whole pile of new letters" (wasRe: chat: a conlang of my very own :)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Saturday, June 1, 2002, 7:05
In a message dated 05/31/2002 09.39.14 PM, stevedegrace@YAHOO.CA quotes
Christophe (I think) and writes:

>> Well, I like the idea of the pile of new letters. >English is boring in its >> insistance in not using any diacritic :)) . > >Yeah, what's up with that, anyway? I like the Old >English orthography better than the one we're using >now. I think we should start a massive protest >movement to bring back thorn :P.
And yogh! to represent /Z/ like in IPA!!!! also that lettre-form that looks like a lower-cased 3 to represent accented schwa and/or certain r-coloured vowels. Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n dZahN/ ~ "When you lose a language, it's like dropping a bomb on a museum." ~ Kenneth Hale --------------------- en legoset _ creolego _ = ¡ gwerra sumtotall-morda legotaxo! ¡ banc poli en-noxa legoplex ! creo legoplex ! trans-litteral-slice-ation into English: in Creo-Lego word-set <vocabulary>: War word-system sum-total(all)-death ! <combat/fight linguistic extinction!> Save multiple in-danger language{s}! Create language[s]!

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