Pelandan ideograms

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:01:31 +1300


John English

>Me> So a New
> > Pelorian sentence might look like "...and so [JarEel] spoke to [FodAriam]"
> > where the words in brackets are ideograms of a syllable in length.
>
>I'm confused by what you mean by "a syllable in length" - surely a syllable
>is an aspect of spoken language? [JarEel] may be a single ideogram in
>writing but surely its still two syllables?

No, it's not. It's two syllables each with a different ideogram - one for "Jar"
and another for "Eel".

--Peter Metcalfe

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