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Bfowol: > > It is easy to construct a self-segmenting engelang, but the real snag > > is how to cope with names (etc., e.g. borrowings) where one wants > > to minimize distortion of the original form of the name. I'd be > > interested to hear people's ideas on possible solutions. Oh -- and > > a further criterion: concision is a desideratum, so the question is: > > What's a good way to handle names in a self-segmenting > > engelang that constitutes an optimal balance between (a) preserving > > self-segmentation, (b) distorting the original name as little as > > possible, and (c) concision. > > In avoiding the distortion of the original, (b), do you give > precedence to preservation of the visual form, or to preservation > of (an approximation of) the auditory form of the original? Let's say the latter, for starters. The former is desirable only in writing, and in writing there are extra typographical/graphical possibilities that can be exploited. --And.