Saturday, May 14, 2005

Orthographic style sheet

Dene Sułine in northern Saskatchewan suffers from a violent sound shift from t -> k. For that reason they have had a hard time developing a usable orthography. In this computer age, they could develop a style sheet system that simulates what goes on in a Dene reader's head when reading text from that other dialect. Replace the t's with k's and account for acceptions.

I'm not sure if this is actually genius or not. I thought of it on the pot.

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