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Re: Tone Marks

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, February 21, 2002, 12:21
Jim Grossmann scripsit:

> I'm sure that others have thought of different ways to convey tone without > using special characters. I hope that all you others post too.
gua!spi, aka gua\spi, places the tone mark just before the syllable. / is a rising tone, \ is a falling tone (! is an alternative), - is high tone, = is low tone, ^ is rising-falling tone, | some what arbitrarily is falling-rising tone. The inventor also uses the same convention for asciiromanizing Mandarin. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_

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