Subj : Language Support
To   : All
From : n2qfd
Date : Sun Apr 21 2024 10:36 am

So, 

  Just wanted to say thank you for all the great feedback on the question of other languages in Mystic! 
  I had thought I might return to some Esperanto on my BBS but again with the need for some special characters making it difficult I was thinking about how to do this. It's not like it wasn't a question a century+ ago either. Typewriters lacked the Circumflex or as we said in Czech the  "hat" over letters. C with a hat become a Cha sound, S with a hat a Sha sound. Then I remembered the movement to "reform" Esperanto called Ido and it did away with these extra keys along with other "improvements". 
  I'm not trying to make a monument and from what I can tell because Ido spawned from Esperanto it's mostly interpretable and mutually intelligible. So this means that I can have a conlang base at my BBS without the need to mess about too much. I have set the precedence that if you want to use Esperanto we will employ the X system. This means that when you want a C with the hat to make Cha you write Cx the S will be Sx and this is an old and established convention. Or you can work in Ido which has such a similar functionality that you'll be understood either way. 
  I'm not looking to set the world on fire or a hill to die on, just another fun place to experiment with language. I grew up in a home where there was a little Japanese spoken and it made for a secrete language. It's nice out in the grocery with my wife later in life to be able to pass a few words of Esperanto and not have the other individuals in the isle get it. I would encourage kids to play with this for that very reason too. It's fun to have a code language when you want it and if that language isn't sapping too much resource all the better! 
  In Esperanto and many other language circles it's called crocodiling to talk in a language another party doesn't know and I agree it can be rude. So to be used with care I guess.
  
  So, again my thanks with the questions fsx net never fails to bring out the best in the curious! 

  Multa danko, adio, 

  N2QFD//Malachi

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