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on 2/11/02 3:19 PM, Alexander Browne at alexbrowne@hidden.email 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.) Come to think of it, why not have a contest ? Find a sound for 'c'. Already rejected is the c as schwa, because a schwa just doesn't seem to fit into the Txeqli phonology, except perhaps as an unstressed version of 'a', and because it looks just awful. We don't want it to be a combination of 2 sounds, because that was part of the problem with it being /tS/. And we don't want it to be, say /T/, because then we'd need another letter for the voiced version. How about a click? Just kidding, I think. -- >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