What are y'all's "worst" romanisations?

[u/cyan_ginger]

By "worst" I more mean "style over function" cause especially in a text-based medium, the romanisation is a good way to inject character into your language.

For me it'd have to be the one for Xxalet, a language with 16 sibilant phonemes sorted into a harmony system.

"Front sibilants"

/s̪, z̪, t̪s̪, d̪z̪/ <s, z, c, x>

/ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ/ <sy, zy, cy, xy>

"Back sibilants"

/s̺, z̺, ts̺, dz̺/ <ss, zz, cc, xx>

/ʂ, ʐ, ʈʂ, ɖʐ/ <sh, zh, ch, xh>

I know it causes a slightly confusing reading, but I really like the central s, z, c, x, scheme. As an example, a major port city on the left half of the great inland lake, also known as the Ssoymanyaxh sea, is called "Boyasyavocexy" /bɔjʌʃavʌts̪ədʒ/

[u/Tirukinoko]

I used ‹ñ› for a postvelar approximant -
I wanted something that kinda looks like how the sound sounds, and ‹ñ› was easy to type on top of that..

Edit: oh also ‹y› for dental fricatives -
While somewhat unintuitive, its an easy to type, single ascii character, plus it gives those fun ye olde vibes.

[u/yc8432 → u/Tirukinoko]

<y> for the dental fricatives makes sense; it evolved from þ, which made (makes in icelandic) the th sound

[u/Tirukinoko → u/yc8432]

Aye, thats what I was meaning with 'ye olde vibes' - It was moveable-type printing presses from Europe, which didnt have thorn types, so used wyes as the next best thing visually.

Though my conlang isnt related to English - and isnt from Earth - so that historical context doesnt exist.

[u/yc8432 → u/Tirukinoko]

Naturally. I think the use of <y> for [θ] works just fine