Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> On Saturday, February 21, 2004, at 03:41 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> [snip]
> > Well, paper wasn't en vogue back then, but on papyri, basically yes.
> > Written..
>
> and
> On Saturday, February 21, 2004, at 04:45 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> [snip]
> > THEY DIDNT VSE PAPER - IVST PAPYRVS AND PARCHMENT
>
> ..and waxed wooden tablets (and, possibly, other media).
>
> But, hey, what is it with you Swedes? It seems to me a wee bit pedantic
> not to allow papyrus sheets as a form of paper? After all, what is the
> origin of the word 'paper' if not the ancient Greek 'papyros'?
>
> My English dictionary gives:
> "a material made in thin sheets as an aqueous deposit from linen rages,
> esparto, wood pulp or other form of cellulose, used for writing, printing,
>   wrapping and other purposes, extended to other materials of similar
> purpose or appearance, as to papyrus, rice-paper, to substance of which
> some wasps build their nests, to cardboard, and even to tinfoil ('silver
> paper')."
>
> Must all our cookery books which tell us to use 'rice-paper' be changed &
> all the natural history
> books that tells us certain wasps build paper nests be changed?   :)
Without Question! :)

It might be a case of L1 influence - I can't immagine saying _papper_ for
papyrus in Swedish. And let's not talk about tinfoil.

                                                   Andreas