From: Adam Walker
Message: 197
Date: 2001-04-09
>From: Doug_Ewell@..._________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
>To: <qalam@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: My Invented Script - Sawi
>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:15:36 -0700
>
>
>I have some of the same questions as Marco, but he was quicker to hit the
>"Send"
>button (by about a day and a half), so I won't simply reiterate his
>questions.
>
>Something he didn't mention is that some of the glyphs (like S) look like
>they
>are designed to be joined together, while others (like D) clearly cannot
>be. Is
>any joining or ligation intended in this script? Perhaps a brief sample
>(e.g.
>"Now is the time for all good men...") would help me visualize this script
>in
>action.
>
>Please note that my expertise in glyph variation is suspect. My invented
>script
>was deemed "not workable" on this list by one of the world's leading
>experts,
>primarily because the glyphs in my script are too similar and too dependent
>on
>rotations and reflections. So yours may succeed where mine did not.
>
>On a different note, I am puzzled by the lack of the [z] sound in an
>English
>derivative.
>
>Marco wrote:
>
> > - English has a lot of diphthongs, like the [au] in ['hauz] (house), or
>the
> > [ou] in [pi'�nou] (piano): how are these spelled?
>
>but it's important to note that English pronunciation varies wildly, and in
>the
>case of "piano" at least, the vowel I use is closer to a pure [o] than to
>the
>British [eu]. In any case, you may not have wished to capture this
>distinction
>in your script, as I did not in mine.
>
>-Doug Ewell
> posting from work in Irvine, California
>
>
>____________________Reply Separator____________________
>Subject: My Invented Script - Sawi
>Author: <qalam@yahoogroups.com>
>Date: 2001-04-02 3:07 AM
>
>I have the first draft of an invented script up at
>http://dvdeug.dhis.org/sawi.png
>It was designed for a roleplaying game; it's used for a descendent of
>English, with the main phonetic difference being the loss of the z
>sound, usually in exchange for the ipa letter ezh sound. Positions
>relative to the base line are important; consonants fill the space,
>more or less, vowels are at the top and small, and punctuation is at
>the bottom and small.
>
>It's the first of my artificial scripts I'm really happy, so I'm
>putting it out here to be torn apart. Anything that would be
>too painful for a real script? Any failures to understand the
>sound structure of English? Is the IPA wrong? (I'm refering to
>a 40 year old book, so some of the IPA characters might be wrong.)
>Any other comments?
>
>--
>David Starner - dstarner98@...
>Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
>"I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and
>laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
>