Re: The romanization of Spanish (was: ... of a complex tone language)

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:44:36 +0100, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

>En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>
>> There is indeed a proposal out there to create a specifically
>> American spelling of Spanish, using b for /b/, k for /k/, s for /s/, i
>> for /i/, g for /g/, and j for /x/ everywhere, and dumping orthographic
>> h.
>> You can see this (parodied) at
>> http://www.salleurl.edu/~tl06428/ortografia.htm
>>
>> I doubt these "rreformas" to "el idioma de Kerbante i Kebedo" will
>> catch on.....
If you mean {k} for /z/ or /s/, no. However, many of the other changes are
already in common use (Except in newspapers and dictionaries, but they're
always behind the times).

Jeff

>Hehe, I had forgotten vocalic _y_ :)) . And I don't think a reform that
>would separate the Spanish of Latin America from the Spanish of Spain
>(where for instance the difference between z and s still exists, at least
>in Castilla) would ever catch on anyway.
>
>Christophe.
>