Re: CHAT: Tiri'n script was Re: chat: a conlang of my very own :)

> > It now occurs to me that I should have done this with the font...
>         Is it a truetype or type1 font? Can you put it on the web to
download?
> Please? :)
You know, I have no idea what kind of font it is. But it shows up with a
"TT"
icon in my fonts folder. ;)

Here's the newest version of the font;
http://refrigeratedcake.com/other/tirinstandard.rar
It has a few quirks; þ is [, for instance, and isolated a is ^. j and J are
i and I without
the left... leg, I guess one could say, for use up next to vertical letters,
like you'd
use [j and not [i.

>         Ah; all is clear. In X-SAMPA, the accented vowels are / { I @ E U
/. However,
> most people on the list replace /{/ with /&/, since "ampersand" starts
with
> the same vowel and it just looks better. Hmm--I don't know how you
pronounce
> "but"; another alternative vowel is / V /,
Well, given the handy IPA sounds page someone linked earlier (which is
extremely
useful, thank you, I forgot to save that message but bookemarked the pages)
I think what I mean is /@/, though it's definately a ...uh..real vowel, in
that I don't
just slur p`'t; it's definately p`u`t to me. I'm really not sure what /V/
is, even with
the sound :P

>         Oh, yes, and the unaccented vowels are simply /a i u e o/. So, who
speaks
> Nihongo (Japanese)? You or Jeff?
Neither of us; well, Jeff knows some, though I can't tell how much. I know
some random words. We both want to learn; I plan to take a class next
year. :)

<snips>

>         I take it to be you, Jeff, and ? Is Jeff also a conlanger, or does
he just
> invent scripts? Nothing against graphopoeisis, mind you. And would someone
> correct my Greek? Is it "-poeisis" or something else?
Both, though, I can't remember whether or not he did any conlanging before
he
met me. He can read and write something sassy like 13 systems, Tengwar and
Tiri'n
included. He's really talented and it makes me jealous, since all I can do
is draw
badly. ;)
The other person who can read and write Tiri'n is my sister, who
unfortunately
says Conlangs are useless. 6_6


-Kendra
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