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Topics in this digest:
1.1. Re: Conlang punctuation.
From: Leonardo Castro
1.2. Re: Conlang punctuation.
From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
2a. Re: THEORY: Long and short vowels association.
From: George Corley
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1.1. Re: Conlang punctuation.
Posted by: "Leonardo Castro" [email protected]
Date: Wed Jul 3, 2013 5:07 am ((PDT))
2013/7/3 Michael Everson <[email protected]>:
> On 1 Jul 2013, at 17:06, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Are there rules governing conlang punctuation?
>>
>> I meant to ask awhile back about this, but kept forgetting.
>> I think mine uses a period as a coma.
It's logical, as a period is graphically smaller tha a coma.
>>
>> Can I invent my own punctuation?
>
> You can, but there is a very great many wonderful punctuation characters
> already encoded.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf
>
> Look at all them dots. :-)
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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1.2. Re: Conlang punctuation.
Posted by: "Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews" [email protected]
Date: Wed Jul 3, 2013 7:18 am ((PDT))
What's on the file. It's visual. I thought it would be.
Mellissa Green
@GreenNovelist
-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Leonardo Castro
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 8:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Conlang punctuation.
2013/7/3 Michael Everson <[email protected]>:
> On 1 Jul 2013, at 17:06, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Are there rules governing conlang punctuation?
>>
>> I meant to ask awhile back about this, but kept forgetting.
>> I think mine uses a period as a coma.
It's logical, as a period is graphically smaller tha a coma.
>>
>> Can I invent my own punctuation?
>
> You can, but there is a very great many wonderful punctuation characters
already encoded.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf
>
> Look at all them dots. :-)
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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2a. Re: THEORY: Long and short vowels association.
Posted by: "George Corley" [email protected]
Date: Wed Jul 3, 2013 6:29 am ((PDT))
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Leonardo Castro <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> In some old e-mail conversations with Justin B. Rye, I could get some
> details of what he imagined for an English spelling reform.
> Apparently, most English words *look* as if they ended in consonant,
> because all long vowels would get a final <y>, <w> or <h> :
>
> be -> biy
> shampoo -> shampuw
> law -> loh
> Ra -> Rah
>
Keep in mind that "law" varies a lot by dialect, and to me "loh" doesn't in
any way suggest the correct pronunciation.
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