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Re: I'm thinking of doing a romlang.



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@n...> 
wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 03:48:51 +0000, jsjonesmiami 
<jsjonesmiami@y...>  
> wrote:
> 
> > --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Bennett" <paul-
bennett@n...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > FWIW, here's what I think the alphabet/phoneme set will be like:
> >
> > The following got mangled in the archives:
> >
> > > �¢ /A/
> > > c�¼i /kwi/
> > > �ª /E/
> > > g�¼i /gwi/
> > > �´ /O/
> > > s�¼i /swi/
> > > z�¼i /zwi/
> 
> *Please* don't tell me Yahoo! can't handle UTF-8. That would suck  
> monumentally. They were all Latin-1 characters, anyway (which IMO
> makes a good deal of sense for a romlang).

I double checked. The characters seem to go through OK, but there's 
absolutely no indication that the page is UTF-8. This means that the 
encoding has to be set manually when browsing each time a page with a 
different encoding comes up. So it's best to use Latin-1 if all the 
characters are Latin-1.

> a^
> cu"i
> e^
> gu"i
> o^
> su"i
> zu"i
> 
> > Also, the underscores show up only in the reply window for some
> > reason. The mysteries of Yahoo ....
> 
> That's bizarre. I blame the Romans. I mean, what have the Romans
> ever done for us, eh?
> 
> > So far so good.
> 
> Ish.
> 
> > Any sample words?
> 
> Any sample Latin vocab for me to play with?

Idunno. Maybe conjugate cantare, finire, and some other common verbs?

> > Also, do you have any particular type of romlang in mind?
> 
> I'm thinking a small dot of an island in the western Mediterranian.
>
> 
> Paul

Welcome to the club! <shakes hand /> I think there should be a Small 
Western Med Island Registry for conlangers.

Jeff