Re: Too bizarre?

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> But I have been re-thinking this again. I don't know how Srikanth was
> imagining it. But at present BrScB has four vowels:
>                 FRONT    BACK
> High     i        u
> Low      E        O
>
> As I was going through truth tables with my students the other day, it
> suddenly struck me that the two input columns for AND, OR and XOR had four
> arrangements and if, instead of putting A and B at the top of each column
> we could have:
>          Lo/Hi  Back/Front
>            0        0       = /O/
>            1        0       = /u/
>            0        1       = /E/
>            1        1       = /i/
>
> Where Lo=0, Hi=1; and 0 = Back (and rounded) and 1 = Front (and unrounded)
> .
>
> Thus if we reassign the BrScB plosives, fricatives and alveolar
> approximant thus:
>
>                        Binary values
>                         0       1
> bilabial plosive  /p/  b       p
> alveolar plosive  /t/  d       t
> velar plosive     /k/  g       k
> labiodental fric. /f/  v       f
> alveolar fric.    /s/  z       s
> alveolar appr.    /l/  r       l
>
> The first consonant, as in the binary table above, determines the height
> and the second whether it is back or front, e.g.
> bz (00) = /pOsO/
> pz (10) = /pusu/
> bs (01) = /pEsE/
> ps (11) = /pisi/
>
> The advantages of this over the present BrScB scheme is that:
> - we do not need any extra symbol to make the vocalization clear;
> - bz, pz etc have only _one_ meaning each instead of two possible meanings
> which IMO is better.
>
> But is it too bizarre??
I think it's nifty. But then I'm the guy who concocted the orthography in
which "oo", "ou", "uo" and "uu" all spell [ow] ... :)

Seriously, I think it's along the more elegant things on the lines of
a "romanagana" I've seen. I say go ahead!

Speaking of which, I've having a private "romanagana" project on the
backburner. Me being me, it's not supposed to fullfil any practical goals - it
just aims at a high degree of niftiness. It recently aquired a new feature,
borrowed from Megehean! Namely, "e" and "o" are used to form diphthongs in
respectively -j and -w with the preceding vowel. Eg, "a" and "m" are [a] and
[nu], so "ao" and "me" are [aw] and [nuj]. The later, I guess, should satisfy
any appetite for orthographical bizarrerie!

                                                            Andreas

                                                   Andreas