Conlang Orthography

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I have begun referring to random meaningless apostrophes in fantasy and sci-fi stories as "prepostrophes."

On another note, maybe the more conscientious spec fic conlangers may want to start representing glottal stops with hyphens instead. I know I connect the sound to hyphens far more readily. Howbout you?

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much the only place I've used apostrophes when fooling around with conlangs myself.

I actually had a couple of places where it ended up between doubled consonants as well as I recall, so in my system, the German Nachttisch (Night Table) would have been written Nacht'tisch, clearing up any possible confusion for those coming upon it for the first time as to whether or not to run the 't's together.