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

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=
e
>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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