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X-Mailer: CoreCommMail X-IPAddress: 169.207.130.117 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 01:13:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > 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. > > Bracketing will rate you an A+ for both (a) and (b), and something less > for (c). For example, in Katanda, the proper name "Joe Q. Schmoe" can > be rendered as "Ka<Joe Q. Schmoe>byo", where prefix "ka" indicates a > proper name, the left and right arrows are the brackets, and "byo" > indicates that the word is the name of a person (as opposed to country, > river, corporation, etc). > > For speech applications, you'll need some way of representing the > brackets. However, even so, the speech-analyzer is likely to have > problems with whatever appears between the brackets since it won't > conform with the self-segregation rules. I think that in speech a pair of verbal brackets such that the first would indicate "the following phonetic string is a (foreign/borrowed) name", and the ending bracket would indicate whether the name is a Proper/ personal name, a corporation or other legal entity, collective, etc., would be sufficient. Bfowol ------- "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." -Charles Fisher CoreComm Webmail. http://home.core.com