Re: Conlang orthography

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have silent letters in their language's orthography, or
> > irregular spellings, or simply complex orthography?  I suspect that the
> > celtic-roman conlangs probably have a fairly complex orthography.
>
> Brithenig spelling (like Welsh) is about as regular as Spanish, just a
> little glitch here and there.  Breathanach spelling, OTOH, is a bitch,
> though not quite as much as Irish is.
>
> As for Kernu orthography, or rather kakography, I can only say it was
> obviously invented by a Cornishman with a hangover the night after
> dancing and ****ing with an Irish colleen: it can only be compared
> in our universe with Manx.

Is it really as bad as all that? ;-)  The orthography, I mean, not the
dancing and, well, the other bits...

Padraig.

>
> --
> John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
>         You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
>         You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
>                 Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
>