Re: Take my poll on the Conlang Page

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

> --- Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> wrote:
>
> > I like doing old languages, not having to
> > worry about typoes or strict orthographick
> > rules.
>
> Nothin to say a modern language can't have, er,
> slippery orthography!
Perhaps not, but how many don't? i gess the case cood b made that english
duzzent coodnt t But that's pretty informal, not the kind of thing you'd
expect in a book unlike some of what's been written in the place.

> > Modern languages have
> > their good features too, though; you can have
> > incredibly complicated
> > orthographic rules about things like
> > hyphenation (I like some of the old
> > German rules like ck becomes k-k or in
> > compounds tt might become tt-t (I
> > think)).
>
> Cor! Now, there's something for Kerno typography
> to play with! We've already got ligatures and
> weird punctuation rules, why not some totally
> arcane and useless hyphenation rules too! Woohoo!
/me is incredibly inclined to say 'bugger chronology, i'm just going to
make the orthography for Modern Føtisk'. After all, it won't be set in,
um, lead, will it now?

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Tristan