On 18 Jul 2003 at 18:55, Star Raven wrote:
> Letter Q W E R T Y U I O P
> Normal (.) kick ha peep tot lol ch fee sh
> Shift gag ng bib deed roar j vow zh
>
> A S D F G H J K L
> out wool on if ash ado egg ah ian
> oi ooze oh eat ice up age awe
>
> Z X C V B N M
> are air array yea they whip so
> or ergot ear yew thigh woe zoo
You seem to have put Tall letters on unshifted positions and Deep
letters on shifted positions, fairly consistently, with a few
exceptions. I'd suggest you change those for better consistency:
* swap "ha-ha" and "hung" (there's been discussion about whether this
was a mistake or not several times, but that's the way we have the
alphabet, so I suggest the Tall letter hung be unshifted)
* swap "thigh" and "they" - "thigh" is the Tall letter so should be
unshifted
* "yea" should have "woe" as a shifted equivalent ("yew" could go with
"Ian", for example)
* What's "whip"? (Presumably, this represents the [hw] sound some
dialects have... what shape does its letter have for you? It's not part
of standard Shavian.)
* Where's the namer dot? [Ah, hang on. It's on unshifted Q, right?
Never mind then.]
* Where are "mime" (unshifted) and "nun" (shifted)?
Otherwise, I can't really comment on the arrangement. It's obviously
not as mnemonic as the arrangment introduced by Ross DeMeyere in his
fonts, but I suppose something one could get used to. The "simple"
vowels seem to be fairly consistently in the middle row, the stops,
fricatives, and affricates in the top row, and the compound vowels in
the bottom row.
I suppose you've made some analysis of the relative frequency of sounds
to assign more common sounds to keys that are closer to the centre of
the keyboard? (I see that "ado" is near the middle, for example, which
makes sense to me, and "out/oil" and "Ian" are out at the edge, which
is also what I would have expected.)
I see P is still free, but putting "mime/nun" on that key is probably
not a good idea; intuitively I would assume those are both fairly
frequent sounds, especially N (for example, one common frequency chart
for TO letters begins E T A O I N S H R D L U; N is the second
consonant in there, so it will probably be near the beginning in a
Shavian frequency chart, too).
Perhaps yours could be a kind of "Shavian Dvorak" keyboard :) Did you
look at the Dvorak arrangement when deciding on this layout?
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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