I'm not sure whether italics work so well in Shavian.
That's a rather Latin-alphabet thing, in fact; I don't think italics are even much used in, say, Greek, whose letters are otherwise superficially fairly similar.
I'd suggest using a different Shavian typeface instead of italics and boldface, or using i n c r e a s e d l e t t e r s p a c i n g (which German uses for emphasis, for example), or underlining, or some other device, rather than using italics. (Especially, rather than using oblique/slanted text as poor man's italics.)
As for the T/tea thing, I'd go for a footnote explaining that in the Latin orthography which the King was familiar with, the word "twinkling" begins with a letter which is called "tee" in that script. (Sort of like explaining an alphabet-based joke in another language.)
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Date: 2009-09-22 02:27 pm (UTC)That's a rather Latin-alphabet thing, in fact; I don't think italics are even much used in, say, Greek, whose letters are otherwise superficially fairly similar.
I'd suggest using a different Shavian typeface instead of italics and boldface, or using i n c r e a s e d l e t t e r s p a c i n g (which German uses for emphasis, for example), or underlining, or some other device, rather than using italics. (Especially, rather than using oblique/slanted text as poor man's italics.)
As for the T/tea thing, I'd go for a footnote explaining that in the Latin orthography which the King was familiar with, the word "twinkling" begins with a letter which is called "tee" in that script. (Sort of like explaining an alphabet-based joke in another language.)