En réponse à Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>
> >......on the other hand! |nt| is boring!
>
> ...unless it's a prenasalized plosive! In all the sub-Saharan African
> languages I've come across {getne} would consist of two _open_
> syllables:
> [ge nte].
>
Hehe, it's one way of pronouncing those in Maggel :)), like in the word
|imuohf| pronounced ['mbu:], monosyllabic, and meaning "cows" (onomatopoeic
origin no doubt :)) ).
> But the plain ol' Amero-European syllabification [gen te] is rather
> boring.
>
Agreed!
>
> >Oh well, what's my opinion, since it comes from a man who is reviving
> a
> >language which has monsters like |ibolteadg| pronounced ['poUK]
> (X-SAMPA,
> >except that ' marks primary stress), or |himidu| pronounced ['CE~mptU],
> and
> >what about |imuohf| pronounced ['mbu:]? :))) Until now, the nearly
> worst stays
> >|iragft| pronounced ['xa~N] :)), though |eidriuojha| pronounced
> ['itrYj\@] is
> >near in the competition :)) .
>
> Ach y fi! It makes English look almost regular :))))
>
That was the goal :)) . Yet for instance the spelling |ibolteadg| is
*completely* regular :)) .
>
> Personally, I do find {s'} and {z'} typographically ugly. I find
> nothing
> unpleasing in the French use of {j} for /Z/ nor, for that matter, the
> Maltese use of {x} = /S/. Actually, I've always found the Norwegian
> {sj} =
> /S/ aesthetically pleasing.
>
Same here!
>
> Eh? It looks distinctly like Spanish or Italian. In Breton, Cornish
> and
> Welsh it'd be written {gwai}
>
But Irish and Scottish Gaelic would be rather |guai|-like :)) .
Christophe.
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