[conlang_learners] gzb's corpus (was Re: Welcome, and some proposals for what conlang to learn)

[Philip Newton]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 13:04, Jim Henry<jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Philip Newton<philip.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/6/15 Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com>:
>> [about gzb's corpus]
>>> most of what isn't
>>> inherently private, I've been too lazy to transcribe and HTMLize
>>
>> I wonder whether you'd be open to other people doing so? I wouldn't
>> mind "publishing" a bit of gzb, and I wonder whether bret-ram would
>> also be interested.
>
> Do you mean transcribing stuff I send you that I've written, or
> writing your own stuff in gzb and publishing it?  Either way, the
> answer is yes.

I meant the former (transcribing and HTMLising).

> I've promised Brett some emailed scans or postal-mailed photocopies of
> handwritten gzb stuff, along with a guide to the handwritten gzb
> orthography; I hope to get to that later this week.  I can send you
> copies as well.

That would be wonderful.

If for nothing else than to see what hand-written gzb looks like,
since you mention that the glyphs have evolved a fair bit from the
notional "letter + caron/circumflex". Not to mention the morpheme
glyphs you also mentioned.

>> FWIW, I also made a gzb keyboard layout for vim and one for
>> Firefox+Transliterator, if you're interested in either of them.
>
> Definitely in the latter -- and though I wouldn't use the first, I
> could put in on my website where other people might eventually find a
> use for it.

Right. I'm at work right now but I'll try to remember to send them to
you when I get home.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>