Re: OT: [Q] is a vowel?! (was Re: Articulatory phonetics (was Re: THEORY: unergative))

At 03:15 23.2.2004, Trebor Jung wrote:
>The result of reading Herman Miller's post
>http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0402d&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=5802
>makes me want to reform XS. I mean, who's ever heard of spelling a vowel as
>a consonant except in...XS?! Even English didn't get it this wrong...
That's because germanicists traditionally
transcribe "open o" as an o with a hook below.
Uppergase Q vaguely resembles this sign.
Of course it makes no sense at all in Braille,
so I understand your frustration.

/BP 8^)
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