From games to playful pieces of pi; from circles to rings to discs... oh never mind, it makes sense to me.

Hey Quentersen -- thanks for the suggestion. If I'm still liking it by the time I've done most of the glyphs, it means I'm onto a winner. Which I wouldn't have thought of without your input. Wanna go halves in the squillions of virtual dollars we won't be making from this design? Heh heh.

So it's guenterson, is it? How embarrassing.
This is a clone of Circleplay, which has rounded terminals. In the discussion pane he suggested flattening them out, which wouldn't have occurred to me. And it has resulted in a demonstrably better font. Also because I weeded out nearly all of intaglio's idiosynchrasies. Just left in a few I couldn't bear to lose: lower-case t,y,g etc.

Soon onto the numbers and rest of the latin glyphs. Wish I didn't have to work today. I'm enthused. Steady...

What a dag. Now there's a Kiwi expression.

Now you've got me intrigued to know how the anglo-inexpressible unpronouncible inachievable sounds. How do you shape it in your mouth? Is it gutteral or glottal?

It's part of the problem for natives in the language that conquered the world. It's like being from somewhere in middle America: the rest of the world doesn't exist.

Excuse me while I go practice my !Xhosa.

Oops. I guess middle America isn't where it used to be, it shuffled uncomfortably north...

Meanwhile I'm trying to get my bouche around a hard "g" followed immediately by an aspirated "wh".

I find this whole pronunciation thing interesting. My wife is scottish, so her "wh" sounds are "breathed" -- aspirated -- whereas most Kiwis (and British) make no distinction between whistle and water.

New Zealand is undergoing a huge vowel-shift at the moment; our accent is becoming more distinctive not less. I think it's the rise of a distinct awareness of New Zealand as an entity no longer tied to Mother England's apron-strings. We don't cringe to hear our own accent on television and radio any more. Until the early eighties we only heard the dulcet tones of BBC British on radio and television, an absurd state of affairs for a country on the other side of the world.

The (relatively) famous vowel shift that Australians take the piss out of us for is u for i: fush instead of fish. To us, the Aussie pronunciation sounds like "feesh".

Another peculiarity is our substitution of a W for a terminal L in "ful" words: usuaw, forgetfuw, hopefuw, interminabuw terminuws.

I find the whole thing really interesting.

Ah yes, George Bernard Shaw.

Why can't the english teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn norwegian,
The greeks are taught their greek...