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Re: idea for writing system

nahqun ([email protected]) 

HIvqa' veqlargh!
Didn't mean to capitalize the "i" in "(t)(h)(i)(n)(k)"

~naHQun

On 7/27/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe if I put it like this:
> We have a verb *spelt out* (t) (h) (I) (n) (k). We then have a suffix
> as *one* symbol: (-ing).
> This is the standard, official, accepted way to write (thinking).
> We then have the *spoken* mis-pronunctiation (thinkin').
> Our writing system was then *altered* to incorporate spoken "errors".
> A single glyph for (-ing) *would* work.
> A seperate or altered glyph would need to be introduced for (-in').
> Possibly even (i)(n)(').
> The *grammaticaly unofficial* suffixes in question came about *long
> after* pIqaD was first written down.
>
> ~naHQun
>
> On 7/27/08, DloraH <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 16:23
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: idea for writing system
>>>
>>> -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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