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--- 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