I've started with p/b because of the difficulty in introducing vowels. However, I wonder if that wouldn't be better. I have some work to do. I'll do the first chapter of Dracula twice, in the first, I'll introduce p/b which I've almost finished. For the second, I'll introduce egg/age. Right now, I'm simply selecting and changing the letters by hand. I guess I have some work to do. Once I'm done, I'll export it to PDF and let you guys make your decision.
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From: jeff <akousw@...>
To: shawalphabet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:19:58 AM
Subject: Re: [shawalphabet] Transitional translation book
I think that doing it would probably need to actually use a word-by-word
format, and probably introduce the vowels first, while dropping the elective
silent vowels.
On Wednesday 2008 October 22 18:57:43 Star Raven wrote:
> Soooooo....
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> I had a dream last night, and it took a while for the idea to insinuate
> itself into my writer's brain. You see, in my dream, I was reading this
> book to learn a language that my brain made up. At the beginning of each
> chapter/section/ whatever, there would be vocabulary. Cat = *word my brain
> made up*. In this case, let's use chat, the french word. So every time the
> word cat appeared for the rest of the book, the word chat would be
> substituted. That way, as the very thick book continued (likely a
> collection of stories with increasing vocabulary) you would learn the
> language. For verbs, you could see them in context, for instance, the
> French word être meaning "to be" would be conjugated, but you would see
> active conjugations. Je suis, tu es, il on, ect. would be used, but the
> rest would be in English.
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> Okay, my wierd brain aside, could this work for a transilteration technique
> such as shavian? For instance if we see /bib/ then every time the phoneme
> appeared (e.g. boy, bat, baton, Egbert) the /b/ would be replaced by a
> /bib/. Let's say you introduce letters in pairs, /pip/ and /bib/, /tot/ and
> /did/, then it should only take 24 chapters to use the complete shavian
> alphabet. Granted there are a few squabbles left to resolve, such as
> standardized/ rp spellings, but what do you guys think?
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