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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?

Date: 2011-11-20 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fadethecat.livejournal.com
Heh. One of my early scifi settings included a culture that had last names formatted in the style of Prefix-Apostrophe-Suffix, but it was indicating a dropped syllable, since the prefix was a standard reduction of the genitive form of "family". (That said, once I learned more about linguistics, this prior transcription somehow morphed into "That annoying method those people over there used to represent our language, when a more accurate rendition would be..." Ah, baby linguistics.)

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