This question has been asked before a few times (by me), but with 6-month or so intervals in between, and I know technology and awareness always progress, so...
... Hugh, thanks for mentioning this. I'm on Yahoo Messenger, Id: crookedcricker Unfortunately Yahoo doesn't have good Linux support for Messenger, and they...
Ethan incurred the wrath of Bob on Jun 7, by saying ... [snip] ... Have you tried Gaim? I think I've used it to type Shavian in the past, on a Red Hat system....
... Hey, thanks for mentioning that, Bob. No, I haven't tried using Gaim with Yahoo in Shavian, but since you mentioned it, I will have to check it out. I...
'K... Im an american. I just joined this group. Real name = Bryan, but Faraday is my cat's name. i wanted to see how much Spam i would get from my Yahoo...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the shavian group: How did YOU first hear about Shavian? o Stumbled upon it on the 'Net o Read about it...
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... I thought it was only Utahns that pronunce "egg" and "leg" to rhyme with "plague". Looking at your email address, maybe also Idahoans. (Do you use the same...
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... From: "Faraday Fordham" <for03001@...> ... [snip] ... If you read the Five Orange Pips you will probably get yourself a British inflection,...
I am unfamilar about instant messangers. There seems to be 3 common ones. See below. What is the simplest one to use? I will look into it. Regards, Paul V....
Hi Bryan I started transilerating Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn in a General American Accent. Did about 20 pages or so. It is written in a General Midwest...
I'm an American too. And some of the Shavian letters I do not use as often as the Brittish would. I don't own a computer. But I do go to the library to keep...
I am currently working on a better keyboard layout, which will be more logical than the current. Until then I also use shavian in handwriting form. If anyone...
Hi Mike Thanks for the advice and hand holding. Yahoo Instant Messenger now works fine, and I didn't even have to define a new userid, as my current Yahoo...
Hi Star & Carl Good Luck on your keyboard. I was just thinking that a few more buttons/keys would be nice. And on another topic. When I said that some of the...
internashunal english alfabet with an amerikan aksent:::::::::: [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ pEpD 107 ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] PiJin n nEcD v TYt aJastDz YlHO H VnivDsal foHD...
I went around for a while to see if there was a nice general keyboard solution for shavian, especially one that didn't involve any shift keys. I even looked...
Why is the shift key so bad? I use it all the time, So WhAt wOUld Be SO HarD AbOUt UsInG THe shiFt KeY? Or perhaps in the future, we will have two lage buttons...
The shift key slows your typing down. With Roman letters, the shift key is used mainly for capitals and punctuation, which are never, ever, pronounced and are...
... While it has been my experience that the current Shavian layout is far from ideal (I think the TO Qwerty layout is easier, in fact) still it is possible to...
The purpose of an orthography is to expedite and promote literacy. I don't have much of a problem with Shavian but I do have a slight problem with the ASCII...
Hi Ethan I would spell retired as ratFDd or ritFDd. It is interesting how much variablity there is in the English vowel sounds. Regards, Paul V. as for: E lEdI...
CMU posts a pronouncing dictionary on the web at www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict. In it, a word like "cheese" is transliterated as "CH IY Z", with...
The British dictionary you are looking for is "BEEP". A lot of people have already done this. I have Shavian versions of both CMU and BEEP for automated ...
Scott Stephens incurred the wrath of Bob on Jun 16, by saying ... ...because Shavian is exactly the geeky sort of thing that computer programmers love. My...
I would spell "retired" like "rItFxd"...I apologize again for the horrible beginning of my transliteration. I hope to sometime go back and fix things. As Hugh...
This is good idea, especially if we include alternate pronunciations. In particular American pronunciations. If we had that information teaching Shaw would be...
Hi I agree with your statement: "Most of the spelling differences people make note of do not really matter." where the spelling difference reflects a different...
Shavian is made for English. And that means it is suited for it's various dialects. So this means that, of course the spelling will be different from region...
