Re: Vulcan names Saul Epstein Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:27:14 -0500 Quotes from: Sorik of Vulcan Date: Wednesday, October 7, 1998 5:36 PM >I realized that I couldn't write T'Pel will the characters I > already created so I borrowed Rob's

. That's why it is isolated. Mmm. If this is based on a syllabary, you would need some way of representing an isolated

in any case, because the names don't follow a consistent syllable structure. Your initial analysis favors syllables of the structure VC (where V is a vowel and C a consonant), which is fine. But there are consonants not preceded by vowels, so. > Alright. That sounds good. We can just say that the starter is > "usually masculine", and the is "usually femanine" to eliminate the > need for another set of starters. As I say on the page itself, we will > need more starters for Vorik and Veleris. K'dvarin is also going to need > one. I think you should come up with that one Saul. That would be an honor. I must say that while I was initially somewhat dubious of this project, it has definitely grown on me. As work progresses, you might want to look into the Devanagari script used to write Sanskrit. It was derived from a syllabary but adapted to the irregular syllables of an Indo-European language. It favors syllables of structure CV, so it would be the inverse of yours, but you could adapt the same solutions it does to what are essentially the same problems. So, something like <_k-'dv-r-in> or , where _ indicates "this consonant (or cluster) is not preceded by a vowel." > Just curious, but did the popup java ad appear and stay when you loaded > the page, or did it swiftly disapear? Actually, for me the pop-up window appeared, threw up an error message, and failed to load its contents. The page itself included a most pernicious floating GeoCities stamp when viewed in Navigator 4, blessedly absent when viewed in iExplorer 4. It must use the proprietary LAYER tag... -- from Saul Epstein locus*planetkc,com - www,planetkc,com/locus "Surakri' ow'phahcur the's'hi the's'cha'; the's'phahrka the's'hi surakecha'." -- K'dvarin Urswhl'at