Re: Musical terms (Was: Playing the banjo (Was: Latin help))

>
> How come the spellings are different in Geoff's post
> and Mark's reply?  Obviously Mark has been viewing
> this
> in some strange Central European encoding.
> AFAICS |ù| = /y/ makes more sense than |ł| = /y/,
> so
> obviously something fishy is going on in Mark's
> computer.
>
The idiot yahoo server of course wants to make
everything Latin-1, so I can't see what letters have
come out.  It's supposed to be u-grave.

> Mark J. Reed skrev:
>  > I think that may be the longest list of
> exceptions I've ever seen in a
>  > pronunciation guide that starts off with "most
> letters are pretty
>  > self-evident.". :)
>
> I don't think the list of exceptions is perticularly
> long,
> nor very surprising.  And more power to {x} = /S/!
> That spelling was in use in Old and Middle
> Rhodrese/Borgonzay,
> since in the Vulgar latin that led to R/B /ks/ >
> /sk/
> and then palatalized /sk;/ > /S/, so that pretty
> many
> instances of Latin {x} corresponded to R/B /S/.
> It fell into disuse because the Latin chauvinist
> grammarian called the the use of {cs} for /ks/
> in later loans from Latin "scriptio perbarbarica"
> and people listened to him. OTOH {tx} for /tS/
> stuck.
>
Franj actually uses a Greek-derived alphabet which
parallels Cyrillic.  Con-history is that Old Franj
(written in the Latin script) used |sc|, then the
language moved to a Turkish Arabic script, was briefly
written in Armenian, and then settled on the
Greek-derived script that was developed.  |x| = /S/ as
the modern Romanisation came about because of the
similarity in shape.
Similarly, but in reverse, the Greek omega became the
/gw/ sound because of its shape similarity to the
then-new Latin letter w.

The |x| = /S/ is mostly because I used chi for that
sound in the native script.

>
> /BP 8^)>
> --
> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte
> se
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>     a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot
>                                  (Max Weinreich)
>

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