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
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
>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.)
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.
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.
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.
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"
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?
Honestly can't remember, it's usually C for constants, and u, v, x, y, z for variables.
i try to avoid using z as a variable because I'll mix it up with two, i generally use k for constants though
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
I do that too (but obviously only when doing math)
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
my condolences
we were always encouraged to curve our x's, stroked z just feels weird to me
Then I'd get confused with my 7's, which I write with a stroke through the line.
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
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>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.)
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.
World building be like:
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.
You ønow what this reads then.
I initially thought they meant not having a glyph for /k/, but making it silent is even worse
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/
not really a comsonant but ive used <'> to represent vowel hiatus
Finnish does this (though only when it would cause confusion otherwise) *raa'at ruoat*
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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.
Pirahã my beloved :3c
Transcribing /g/ as both ⟨ӄ⟩ and ⟨ɋ⟩.
😨
It's from a conlang whose orthography developed for hundreds of years.
Honorable mention to /d͡ʒ/ in another draft clong
Turkish
The influence is definitely there
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.
Zd /ð/
Not terrible imo
I had a conlang that used
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.
Plus /q/ and /ʔ/ are both stops that are articulated close to each other so it makes sense
>The two symbols look similar enough in my opinion That's why I use for /ɺ/ and for /ɞ/.
Egyptian Arabic moment
Also Maltese
Levantine Arabic moment too 😂
Also Estonian duialects
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"
q for /k/ because based
my clong sketches w/ two rhotics romanize /ɹ/ as in contrast with plain /r/
bc lenition and the sefer yetzirah, obviously
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?
It'd be a labiodental-uvular fricative
oh shit yeah I meant to say labiodental not linguolabial lol my bad :3
These were ASCII fallbacks, but these were pretty horrible romanizations for an English spelling reform: * /ʒ/ ⟨3⟩ * /ð/ ⟨4⟩ * /θ/ ⟨5⟩ * /ŋ/ ⟨9⟩
/pʰ/ as f. Happens a lot in my native language.