[84899] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: idea for writing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sun Jul 27 21:43:44 2008
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:41:58 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <000b01c8f04a$d7ddc2a0$0800a8c0@juH.Seruqtuq.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
DloraH wrote:
>> As for "-luH" or "-la'" or indeed "-oy" which begins with a vowel
>> rather than a "'," perhaps they could be spelt letter for letter,
>> with the individual letter symbols representing "l," "u," "H," "a"
>> or "'" accordingly.
>
> That's what I was getting at all along. The suffixes have to be
> "spelled" out and cannot be single glyphs.
Not necessarily. Suppose each suffix were a single glyph. Perhaps -luH
and -la' are formed by modifying each suffix in some way, maybe even to
resemble the other. Or maybe there's a special "Type 5 slang suffix"
glyph which can be pronounced either -luH or -la' as the reader prefers.
We really can't discount any possibility based on the little we know or
can infer.
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SuStel
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