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--- 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