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> > I'm holding out for "Teach Yourself Kerno", > > myself! :-) > > Ha! You might want to write it yourself - I kind > of gave up on the idea of doing a TY. Okay, how bout one of them old-fashioned primers then? The "here's the grammar, here are some texts, here's a glossary, now figure it out yourself" approach? :) > > Actually, one aspect of Kerno which I have > > found tough is working out > > pronunciation from the orthography. > > Yes. That was one of the design goals! ;) Aha. :) So are just supposed to guess, or could you be persuaded to add a page to your online Kerno materials discussing the tawdry relationship between the written and spoken word? ;) > > Do the rules from the Grammar of > > the literary language generally hold true for > > the colloquial language > > as well? Ye didna answer ma question, cheil! :) > > Or could I pester you for a sample > > passage with transription in X-SAMPA? :) > > Pester all you like! ;) I'd have to look into > x-sampa and learn how it works before I tried > doing this. For real? Wow, I though I was the only one who was clueless about X- SAMPA and just had to deal because everybody else uses it! Nice to know I'm not alone. :) Okay, any sort of phonetic representation then. > And of couse, I'm still > procrastinating on doing an actual Kerno sound > file... That would be even awesomer. Have you any idea how many people are probably waiting for that? ;) Thomas (frustrated Kerno admirer)