Re: CXS suggestions

In a message dated 7/11/2005 8:48:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
caeruleancentaur@YAHOO.COM writes:

>With respect to my own conlang's phonetics, I've always been puzzled
>by the pairs /c/ /J\/ and /j\/ /C/, the voiceless and voiced palatal
>plosives, and the voiced and voiceless palatal fricatives,
>respectively.  The present symbols offend my sense of order!  :-)
>Why aren't the symbols, e.g., /c/ and /C/, and /j\/ and /J\/, or some
>such?
>I'm just musing.
I'm just guessing, but I figure that the idea was to keep forms of "c" for
voiceless consonants and forms of "j" for voiced consonants, which arguably aids
the memory.

Doug