Re: A Transcription Revision Proposal
hotlisp
Thu, 01 May 1997 21:36:23 GMT

In message <3,0,1,32,19970501103219,00c67f38*atlas> Rob Zook writes:
> 
> This may be common on the net, I know this method seems popular
> on TolkLang. Do these characters come thru OK to everyone:
> 
> =E1 =E9 =ED =F3 =FA
> 
To be honest,I'm not grabbed, as they do not even hint at long
vowels to me. I would keep reading beta as 'b'and theta as 'th'.
Probably I'd forget what the others are supposed to be.
aa at least implies a long 'a', so I prefer that method.
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Jacqueline Y. Comben
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