Re: Think, thank, thunk (was Re: Unicode character pickers)

Mark J. Reed skrev:
> On 3/18/06, Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote:
>
>>--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>>
>>>I share that tic. :)  My most recent coinage in this
>>>space is
>>>"cospicuon", for the state of being conspicuous. (By
>>>analogy with
>>>"oblivious" -> "oblivion").
>>
>>I like.  Lets see if we can viral-market that one to
>>the general publick.
>
>
> Glad you approve.  It's a tad awkward phonetically, though.  One wants
> to pronounce it like "muon" with a strong o instead a schwa.
>
> So what all are we viral marketing now?  -iv instead of -ive when
> pronounced /Iv/ . . . I do like that one.  It eliminates the spelling
> confusion between "liv" and "live".  Although you're still stuck with
> the competing analyses, and therefore pronunciations, of
> "long-lived"...
The obvious solution is to spell the weak past-tense morph
_'d_ (apostrophe + d) as William Blake did, although he didn't
exploit it to distinguish _liv'd_ and _live'd_...

I have a wonderful list of simplified spellings suggested by
the Philological Society (London) in the 1880s, many of which
are pointed out to have been current in Middle English.  Now
that I have a scanner I ought try to webbify that.  Hopefully
the OCR software won't "correct" the spellings...

BTW it's a vile shame that the Elizabethan fad of writing
_gaat, faace_ didn't catch on.  I hate the _VCe_ -> tense
vowel + final consonant "device", especially where there
is conflict between _-e_ indicating tense vowel or "soft"
_c_ or _g_, as indeed in _deviice_ (though that would have
been _devijce_ back then...)  I reiterate that the root
horror is the Anglo _horror diacriticorum_.

--
/BP 8^)>
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    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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