Why don't you use [&] or [@] for the schwa, or
alternatively use [`] or [~] or one of the numbers (just as [h3r] is used in IPA
for 'her"). Those letters are already on the keyboard
"&nd / @nd / `nd / ~nd / 4nd / 5nd /
7nd / 9nd" they are ASCI "k@r&kt&rz /
k&r@kt@rz / k&r4kt4rz /
k4r&kt&rz / k~r&kt&rz / k&r~kt~rz / k&r`kt`rz /
k&r5kt5rz / k&r7kt7rz / k9r&kt&rz /
k&r9kt9rz"
r&ga:rdz fr&m
.reym&nd / .reym@nd / .reym`nd / .reym~nd / .reym4nd / .reym5nd
/ .reym7nd / .reym9nd.
----- Original Message -----
To: txeqli@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:48
PM
Subject: Re: [txeqli] baseline
>>> Yes. So I want to change that to
'kway'.
>>
>> I actually much preferred "kwaj", so y can be
used as the schwa.
>
> I'd actually forgotten that. Let me
think about it.
I like j as [dZ] or [Z] and y as [j] (I hope that's the
correct ascii
ipa), but a schwa would be preferable (I think?), so
something has to
be done.
...Last night I stumbed upon a page
describing the scripts used by
Azeri (i.e. the Turkish-like language of
Azerbaijan). They now again
use the latin alphabet (first it was arabic,
then latin, then
cyrillic, now back to latin), but to fit their sounds
better,
the upside-down--lower-case--e schwa character was added. It seems
no
other language uses it, so they're in trouble when it comes to
finding typewriters, but there are some Azeri fonts and I personally
think it looks rather nice, if strange (see the left side of this
page
<http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_latin/latin_choice.html>).
A
bizarre solution, I admit, but hopefully it will at least make you
think.
--
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Saint Paul, Minn., U.S.
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