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on 2/11/02 4:02 PM, kevinbsmith at yahoogroups@hidden.email wrote: > --- In txeqli@y..., Alexander Browne <alexbrowne@b...> wrote: >> I was sitting here wondering what the new sound of the letter >> C is/will be, since it is no longer 'ch'. Please not 'ts'--- >> that's my least favorite feature of Esperanto, Pinyin, and >> Slavic alphabets. >> >> If it happens that you are planning not to use 'C', I would >> like to say that I much prefer that all 26 English Roman >> letters are used. I don't know why; it just seems more complete. >> (It may have something to do with the fact that I don't want >> there to be a key on my keyboard that doen't have as use. >> Silly....yes.) > > Well, the only logical sounds I can think of would be 'ts' (which I hate as > much as you), or the Scottish 'loch' sound, which I'm also not fond of. I have > a hard time distinguishing 'ts' from 's' and the 'loch' sound from either 'k' > or 'h', depending on context. > > I vote for leaving it unused. At least for now. > > Kevin I concur. Any use of it that I can think of is worse than not using it. I figure it can be the only letter used in digraphs, i. e., in transcribing non-Txeqli sounds. English 'thin' might be 'ctcin,' the 'c' modifying the values of the following letters. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm