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CHAT: Spanish "egnnyie" (was:Umberto Eco and Esperanto)

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, June 14, 1999, 21:01
At 14:58 -0500 13.6.1999, Carlos Thompson wrote:
>Nik wrote: > >> Question: About this, and German's, <ue> convention, does actual <ue> >> not exist in German? Because it seems to me that if it did, there could >> be confusion over whether <ue> meant <u"> or "really" <ue>, as can >> happen at times with the <nn> for <n~> convention in ASCII-fied Spanish; >> <nn> is found at times in words, where the prefix in- is added to a word >> starting with n- (which is why some use <ny> for <n~>). > >Well. Actually <ny> is also found... well, all two letter combinations I'v=
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>seen for <=F1> (<n~>) have this flaw, lets say: > nn (Old Spanish convention): like "anno" /aJo/ or "innovar" /inoBar/ > ny (Catalan convention): like "anyo" /aJo/ or "inyectar" /inj\ektar/ > gn (French/Italian convention): like "agno" /ajo/ or "gnomo" /nomo/ or >"i'gneo" /iGneo/ > ni: like "anio" /aJo/ or "Sonia" /so.nja/ > >(where /J/ is the palatal nasal and /j\/ is the palatal fricative) >
One cool alternative I've seen is to use only ~ (ASCII char 126) as in "se~ora"!
>-- Carlos Th
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