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RE: idea for writing system

DloraH ([email protected]) [Hol po'wI']

I was just pointing out that it wouldn't work if each suffix was represented by a single glyph.
"thinkin'" breaks up that suffix and puts in another character.  If -ing was represented by a single
letter, how would you break it up to spell it differently?


DloraH
 

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> -replying via mobile, no control over format-
> A writing system wouldn't have an *official* way to convey an
> ungrammatical aspect-at first. "Popular usage" would eventually take
> over.
> "Thinkin' " is ungrammatical, but replacing the "g" with "'" is the
> proper way to write it.
> 
> ~naHQun
> 
> On 7/27/08, DloraH <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I sort-of like the idea of a glyph per suffix.  But it's just
> >> so artificial.
> >
> > pIqaDvam vIqelta', 'ach KGT nav 181, pab Hat QIj MO.  -lu' 
> mojaQ -laH mojaQ
> > je luDuDlu' 'ej chen
> > -luH -la' ghap.  mojaQ 'oSchugh wa' Degh, chay' ghItlh?
> >
> >
> > I had thought of this concept once, but in KGT p181 MO explains the
> > ungrammatical combination of
> > -lu' and -laH into -luH or -la'.  If it was a glyph per 
> suffix, how would
> > they express this?
> >
> >
> > DloraH
> >
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