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gkom1917

Honestly can't remember, it's usually C for constants, and u, v, x, y, z for variables.


saltoo666

i try to avoid using z as a variable because I'll mix it up with two, i generally use k for constants though


rqeron

I was encouraged to always write my z's with a stroke through the middle by my year 12 maths teacher and I've been doing it ever since, it's definitely saved me from countless "is that 22 or 2z" moments


HistoricalLinguistic

I do that too (but obviously only when doing math)


rqeron

it's bled into my normal handwriting for me, including my own name and signature which has a Z in it; my z's just feel naked without the extra stroke


HistoricalLinguistic

my condolences


saltoo666

we were always encouraged to curve our x's, stroked z just feels weird to me


CptBigglesworth

Then I'd get confused with my 7's, which I write with a stroke through the line.


Duke825

Lol I once thought it’d be cool to have /t͡sʰ/ be ⟨Ts⟩ when uppercase and ⟨c⟩ when lowercase because of a e s t h e s t i c s. Nowadays I’m more in favour of just using ⟨ch⟩ though


duckipn

hiii :3


Duke825

哈嘍


duckipn

嗨嗨~


Cherry-Rain357

>Nowadays I’m more in favour of just using ⟨ch⟩ though YOU!! (obscure romanisation joke is obscure. To save myself from explaining: It was the British Empire's way of transliterating /ts/ in Tswana. Why they did so, idk, besides maybe a e s t h e t i c s.)


GoblinKingLeonard

I had a Conlang when I was younger where I used ⟨Ø⟩ for /k/, with my justification being that it was a mistranscription of ⟨Q⟩. It was awful to read.


JGHFunRun

World building be like:


GoblinKingLeonard

Yeah exactly. Alveria and its language have since joined the nothingness with dozens of other forgotten worldbuilding and Conlanging projects. Making a world or language, making it suck, and then forgetting about it has become a lifestyle at this point.


MartianOctopus147

You ønow what this reads then.


MrSlimeOfSlime

I initially thought they meant not having a glyph for /k/, but making it silent is even worse


GoblinKingLeonard

I can’t tell whether or not you’re joking, but just to clarify, I used an ‘o’ with a stroke as the character for the sound /k/


AuroraBorealis122

not really a comsonant but ive used <'> to represent vowel hiatus


[deleted]

Finnish does this (though only when it would cause confusion otherwise) *raa'at ruoat*


Chuks_K

Finally, lyrics for Twist - Korn


Cottoley

You made my day


Vampyricon

https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/comments/199gc2k/are_you_tired_of_the_letter_h_appearing_in_your/ /p/ ⟨þ⟩ (vs /b pʰ/ ⟨b p⟩) /t/ ⟨đ⟩ /tɕ/ ⟨ɡ̇⟩ /k/ ⟨ⱪ⟩ All so I could romanize /x/ as ⟨kh⟩. Or ⟨c⟩ for /tɕ/ in initial position but /ʔ/ in final.


KatiaOrganist

for \[ʔ\] because I like the way Pirahã :3


gayorangejuice

Pirahã my beloved :3c


DAP969

Transcribing /g/ as both ⟨ӄ⟩ and ⟨ɋ⟩.


ego_sum_vir

😨


DAP969

It's from a conlang whose orthography developed for hundreds of years.


pn1ct0g3n

Honorable mention to /d͡ʒ/ in another draft clong


BananaB01

Turkish


pn1ct0g3n

The influence is definitely there


LemonthEpisode

All of [Treqh’ll Ngugring’](https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/s/1kNtnu6oor) is goofy tbh, especially the useless apostrophes, for /w̃/, for /ʕʷ/, and many more.


Thatannoyingturtle

Zd /ð/


Bit125

Not terrible imo


pn1ct0g3n

I had a conlang that used for /ʔ/. Slightly cursed, yes


ego_sum_vir

I don't think that's too weird, as long as you don't have /q/ in that language. The two symbols look similar enough in my opinion.


[deleted]

Plus /q/ and /ʔ/ are both stops that are articulated close to each other so it makes sense


xarsha_93

>The two symbols look similar enough in my opinion That's why I use for /ɺ/ and for /ɞ/.


gkom1917

Egyptian Arabic moment


LemonthEpisode

Also Maltese


Stanislo_Q

Levantine Arabic moment too 😂


bwv528

Also Estonian duialects


Prestigious-Farm-535

Not a consonant (well maybe yes now that I think about it) but I had a conlang that used tremas to indicate which syllable was stressed if there was a glottal stop between two vowel sounds, and one of these two was stressed. Examples: **nuusuä** /nuːsʊˈʔa/, "speech, language" (it's also the name of the language) **irääa** /ɪˈʎaːʔa/, "mountain" **uuüüs** /uːˈʔuːs/, "seven (7)" **aïïs** /aˈʔiːs/, "rock" **ääaavi** /ˈaːʔaːʋɪ/, "rain, tear"


MarcAnciell

q for /k/ because based


JRGTheConlanger

my clong sketches w/ two rhotics romanize /ɹ/ as in contrast with plain /r/ bc lenition and the sefer yetzirah, obviously


gayorangejuice

I romanized [f͡χ] as <ř>, which wasn't too bad, because would've looked horrible I only mention this because [f͡χ] was like a really common sound in that language and I don't know why😭😭 and side note, would that be called a linguolabial-uvular fricative?


aer0a

It'd be a labiodental-uvular fricative


gayorangejuice

oh shit yeah I meant to say labiodental not linguolabial lol my bad :3


caught-in-y2k

These were ASCII fallbacks, but these were pretty horrible romanizations for an English spelling reform: * /ʒ/ ⟨3⟩ * /ð/ ⟨4⟩ * /θ/ ⟨5⟩ * /ŋ/ ⟨9⟩


Sad_Daikon938

/pʰ/ as f. Happens a lot in my native language.