| From: | Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 11, 1999, 2:00 |
Actually You are right. It is modified to some extent. But out of those three 'th' does not have a single pronounciation but two. n in new has no letter. Even if it is to be digraphs; why not at least have letters for all the consonants sounds? (if one desires to leave the vowels in the mess that they are in.) ----- Original Message ----- From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:18 AM Subject: Re: Cyrillic for English> Roland Hoensch wrote: > > > > True enough. So why is the latin alphabet not modified for English? > > Well, it is. We use digraphs like "th", "sh", "ch", and use various > sounds for the vowels, according to specific rules. So we don't use > diacritics, that doesn't mean we haven't changed it. > > -- > Today: > 809/8/24 > 1/3/14/4/21 > http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html > http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html > ICQ: 18656696 > AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor >