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

Quoting Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>:

> Merhaba!
>
> 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...
Welsh comes to mind ...

> So would anyone be interested in actually reworking the system? If so,
> please contact me!
There's been more suggestions to rework the X-SAMPA/CXS than Esperanto. I
could send you my system, but I'm afraid I'd have to rework it to Trebor-
readable format, and it does use a few consonantal signs to write vowels - 'Q'
and 'M', mainly.

                                                           Andreas

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