Re: brz, or Plan B revisited (LONG)

Hallo!

R A Brown wrote:

> Recently there were a few mails about Jeff Prothero's "Plan B". Jörg and
> I both agreed his article "design and Implementation of a Near-optimal
> Loglan Syntax" made many good points, but that his phonology for Plan B
> is naive. It is arbitrary and American-centered.
>
> Jörg suggested dropping the dual consonant ~ vowel pronunciation of each
> of the 16 letters, pronouncing them always as consonants (since
> consonant symbols are used for the 16 letters),and inserting epenthetic
> vowels where needed.
>
> In the meantime I had been thinking along similar lines, and suggested
> that as Jeff's 16 consonant letters mapped to unique four-bit patterns,
> the last bit or least significant (LSB) of the first consonant & the
> first or most significant bit (MSB) of the second consonant would
> determine the value of the vowel (see my mail of 11th Sep).
>
> That may have reminded one or two of an email I posted on 9th Nov. 2003
> in which I proposed a four-vowel scheme for BrScB in which the vowels
> were determined from the bit patterns: 00, 01, 10, 11.
>
> At that time, BrScB (a name which is now deprecated!) used a sort of
> syllabary based on an idea Dirk Elzinga had suggested way back in May
> 1999 (on another list). I quote a snippet from that mail:
> {quote}
> ... where each syllable has the same consonant but varies in the vowel
> quality. The vowel qualities are "resting" (central unrounded), rounded,
> and fronted.
>
> p [p|, pu, pi]  b [pa, po, pe] ("|" is "barred-i")
> t [t|, tu, ti]  d [ta, to, te]
> {/quote}
>
> Returning to these two BrScB ideas of Nov. 2003, and combining them with
> Jeff's four-bit (hex digit) idea, I have come 'discovered' this strange
> little language called _brz_ /pElusi/
>
> [interesting stuff snup]
Well done!

Greetings,

Jörg.