Re: Hiho

Vonlia wrote:

>Hey, I am Vonlia.  I've been lurking for awhile, but haven't posted yet.
>
Welcome!

>And here I go.  I am right handed, straight, no beard, and American.
>I'm also male, 14 years old, and from the deep south.
>
We forgive you :) Or, I do. I can't speak for everyone.

>I haven't done
>much except playing with the idea ov conlanging, which I discovered
>after I learned of Tolkien's languages, then I learned a bit about
>Lojban, Esperanto, and now I'm here.  And I'm trying fairly hard to keep
>up with all this, but an e-mail every 10 seconds is tough.
>
Lol :) true. Don't bother trying to read everything :)

>And to make this seem like a meaningful post, I shall ask:  How do you
>go about learning that thing that represents sounds in // or [] or other
>various things?  I've looked a bit and found some sort of thing that
>seemed to represent sounds, but did it with untypables.
>
Hopefully those untypables were IPA characters. Of course, they might've
been American Phonetic Alphabet characters, but that's reasonably rare
these days apparently. We tend to use XSAMPA here, or a modifed form
thereof, which is nothing more than a typable form of the IPA, so if you
know one, and learn the correspondences between it and the other, you
should be right. (Try going to <http://www.conlanglinks.tk/> and seeing
what it has on the matter; you may have better luck than I. The server
doesn't want to respond to me :( )

>Also, is there perhapse an IRC channel where conlanging goes on?
>
Not that I know of. But it sounds like it couldn't hurt :) Might bring
down the amount of off-topic chatter on here. But I doubt it. In
reality, it'll probably just bring it up :) :)

Tristan.

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