[YG Conlang Archives] > [romconlang group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

Re: [romconlang] A possible solution to Rhodrese digraph problems



--- On Fri, 8/27/10, BPJ <bpj@hidden.email> wrote:

>As one of you rightly pointed out _sdg_ was an ugly kludge,

Me, I like "ugly kluges" like that. A couple of languages in the World
are chock full of such polyconconant clusters.

>I've always been somewhat irked by the Catalan _l·l_:
>if they have _ny_ then why not _ly_? However that
>quaint medieval method of marking elision is somehow
>irresistible and may well have existed on the Rhuodre
>too, as that is just to the north of Provençe. 

I used it for Kerno as well, but kept forgetting to write it, so it
dropped away somewhat naturally.

>It is
>easy to imagine a situation where middot and apostrophe
>came to be used interchangeably to mark elision, and
>then these came to be used interchangeably with _h_ to
>distinguish digraphs from letter sequences. I can even
>imagine some use of _c·e, g·e_ in place of _che ghe_

Now, that ìs pretty cool!

>So that most degenerate word ILLAS ECCLESIAS becomes
>_gl'ig·lisg_ which may possibly be an improvement over

And that's just plain wicked! I think I can honestly say that Kerno
spelling has nothing on Rhodrese, and I consider it the English of
Romance orthographies!

>/BP