Re: The Romanized Orthography of My Conlang

Austin Taylor wrote:

> Tom Wier-
>
> The consonants I listed were those whose pronunciation
> differs from, or is excluded from the Katabala consonants.
> I mentioned that all letters, unless otherwise specified,
> are pronounced as in English.  This sentence is there;
> sorry if you didn't catch it, Tom.
No, I caught it.  Here's what you say in your attachment:

       All letters are pronounced as they are pronounced in English
       each letter and syllable being pronounced distinctly, with no
       diphthongs, except for the following:

Here you're talking about the writing system of the language you've
made.  The others on this list, including me, were asking you about
the sound system, however you might actually write that down.
Sound systems can vary signficantly from language to language, and
you made no indication that you had any /p/ (the sound).  You only
made a comment about <p> (the orthographic symbol).

Just a note about the notation system here that we use:

< >  brackets denote the *written* form a word may take;
e.g. "tie" <tie>
/  /   solidi denote the *phonemic* form of the word.  Phonemes
are a relative measure of the sound produced, in terms of what
the speakers recognize as distinct. E.g. "tie" /tai/
[ ]   brackets denote the *phonetic* form a word may take.
Phones are an absolute measure of the sound produced, inasmuch
as phones show subtle distinctions in the sound being made that
doesn't register in the speaker's conscious understanding of the
language. e.g. "tie" [t_haj]

Generally speaking, we also use quotes to indicate the concept
involved.

(I'm sure you understand this; I just want to make sure we aren't
misunderstanding each other here simply because of notation)

> To all:
>
> For those of you that find my lines of text to be too long,
> I will point out that 70 is the recommeded width, and my
> program is set to 72.  Also, all your lines are too long
> on my program.
Well, it seems more than one person has found that your
posts have lines that are longer than normal.  Unless it's a
problem with your ISP, you might want to see if there's some
setting you've missed to fix it.

Thanks :)

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