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on 2/25/02 5:29 PM, uaxuctum at uaxuctum@hidden.email wrote: >> My new idea is this: C wouldn't be pronounced; it'ld be there to > allow >> words to start with vowels and still fit the rules. If someone > wrote >> something with no spaces, I could still find what morphemes are > where. >> The only real problem I can see is that voice-recognition software >> might get confused, so for this they could be limited to foreign >> names/place names. With the context clues, this works seems to > work >> to me. > > I think your proposal would be pretty much equivalent > to make <c> stand for a glottal stop. > > BTW, has anybody noticed the proposal I made > several messages above?: > > <c> = /S/ -- <tc> /tS/ > <j> = /j/ > <x> = /Z/ -- <dx> /dZ/ > <y> = schwa > > With that orthography the name of the language would > be Tceqli. I was badly wanting a schwa for some time, because I wanted to borrow lots of Mandarin and English words like feng, ben, gun, bum, etc. But I also wanted words that would end with an unstressed 'a', which, for me at least, tends to turn into a schwa. Words like kama, etc. would be pronounced with a schwa by English speakers, thereby making kama and kamy homonyms. So I reluctantly forgot about schwas. One problem with having C be a glottal stop is that we'd have to be very careful not to make a glottal stop elsewhere, as in the letter names 'he a, he e', etc. And that, for me, precluded glottal stop as a phoneme. Here's a weird thought. C could stand for the sound in 'bee CHew', while TX stands for the sound in 'beeT SHoe.' Nah. -- >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