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

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.....
>
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.

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