Apr. 18th, 2009

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The lexicon of the Shavian wiki has passed 14,000 words, and the system is now smart enough to transliterate all of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (That might be worth printing, too.)

Some important policy questions we're currently turning over before we go much further include:

3. We currently have a rule that all spellings in Androcles are canonical, and set precedents. Should this rule be kept?

7, 8. Should syllabic -n or -l have a schwa ("ado") before them? For example, should "bottle" be "𐑚𐑪𐑑𐑤" or "𐑚𐑪𐑑𐑩𐑤"? Language Log has a good argument why it should be the former (not that they mention Shavian there).

10, 11. Should we retain apostrophes where they're used in the Latin alphabet? Androcles appears to use them for possession ("beast's") but not for elision ("don't"). Two editors have suggested removing them for possession too, which accords with GBS's own practices.

21. Should we retain the trap/bath split? Androcles has it, but GBS specifically asked for the play to use Northern English, which does not have it.

I've also considered using the existing system, now that we have a substantial lexicon of phonemic spellings, with other spelling reform systems; we'd have tables in the wiki to map each character to whatever other character it would be, and then you'd be able to choose whether to view each page in Shavian, Deseret, Unifon, any of the various Latin-alphabet respelling systems...

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