Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:43, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Jrg Rhiemeier (I think he's back onlist now) has made an ASCII-IPA scheme
> called "CPA", which's the best, mnemonically speaking, I've seen. I dunno if
> its available anyplace on the 'net right now, tho'.
To say that 'which's' seems odd in that context would be an
understatement. I'm not sure what the rules are about contractions, but
that seems totally against them.

> One of it's niftier features is using a mathematicsesque convention where ^
> (circumflex) turns a following character into a superscript one. So, a
> voiceless aspirated alveolar stop, which in IPA would be a "t" followed by a
> superscript "h", becomes [t^h] in CPA. For someone used both to ASCII-fied
> maths and to the IPA, this feels so natural that I've occasionally been
> guilty of using it without mentioning it.
I agree entirely ;) Not that I do much maths though... But occasionally.

Tristan.