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Re: "se" and "sa"



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote:
> on 2/15/04 5:38 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@r... wrote:
> 

> Hey, this may be a great idea.  I've replaced 'se' with 'de' in the 
grammar
> intro.  How's it look?

Great!
> 
> Only bunch of words I've got that break the rule are ts-words, 
mostly from
> German.  As 'tsan,' tooth.  How about it and others become 'zan'?  

Yes!! /ts/ mutates toward /s/ too easily anyway.

But I'm not against fricative-stop or sybilant-stop combinations; I'm 
only suggesting that all of the "Ce" words begin with a stop. 
(Thereby implying that there aren't any "CCe" words.) However, the 
same result could be achieved by disallowing any "CC" combination, as 
you have done with the ts-words described above. 

--K