Jim Allan <jallan at smrtytrek dot com> wrote: > Ewellic, to be sure, does not match one to one with the standard Latin > alphabet. But I would presume that when Doug Ewell created it he was > familiar with either IPA or some other phonemic/phonetic notation such > as that in Webster dictionaries.
When I was 17 I had virtually no exposure to IPA. I had seen the cheesy and problematic dictionary pronunciation conventions that go to almost any length to avoid non-ASCII letters like "Å" and "Î". So yes, I could derive a pronunciation from a dictionary. But I wasn't trying to duplicate any such scheme with different letterforms. For one thing, most of them seemed to think "i" as in "ice" is a single vowel, and "ch" as in "church" is a single consonant, and I happened to disagree. > I would suppose he created Ewellic as a cipher of such characters. Not at all my intent. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
