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--- BP Jonsson <melroch@hidden.email> wrote: --------------------------------- --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@c...> wrote: > >Though I had kind of liked the idea of -/ja/ and > >-/jum/ :) I was trying to figure out how proper > >classical Latin went here, so I could decide > >whether to follow it in my "revamped Latin". I > >think I'd at least move to /-ja/ etc. in > >descendants of my "revamped Latin" .... > Well, since the /j/ pronunciation *was* current in > vulgar Latin I can't see what's stopping you. > After all if it's *your revamped* Latin it's your > prerogative, isn't it? No. It's my world so it's my perogative. (But I say he can do it.) Of course, failing doing-it-on-a-whim, you can always later (i.e. after a /j/>/J/ change or whatever else may happen) say that i > j / _V or something, and then this j>J as well. I believe Spanish is known for doing this, but with /h/ (i.e. h>0, then f>h>0, and in some dialects s#>h>0 and/or x>h>0 (x<j, g)). Obviously no-one particularly wants to be a /h/ in Spain. Obviously it's what evil people get reincarnated as :) -- Tristan (who rejoins the world on Saturday... three more days of semester left!) Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com