Re: Plastic Surgery on a Conlang

Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:
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There's a slight element of ambiguity here:  =ng= can mean both /N/
and /Ng/ intervocally.  Writing the latter as =ngg= would be rather
ugly.  Anyway, the popular transliteration doesn't make an effort to
be unambiguous -- that's what the linguistic transliteration is for.
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that's how indonesians write them: "tinggal" vs. "tangan"
i don't find "tinggal" uglier though...:-)

Mathias