Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

> >Hm, what would we do about geminate [z]?
>
> Do as for the vowels - place acutes above long consonants!
>
> Seriously, I didn't remember that Hungarian has geminate consonants. Well,
> either keep {zs} for /Z/ (tho' that'd ruin the nice symmetry), use the
> hac^ek option, or exhange {z} for someting else as the "postaveolarizer".
> Is, say, {x} or {j} available for this purpose?My knowledge of Hungarian
> orthography is somewhat hazy.
{x} is not used atall, it's rewritten {ksz} in almost every
situation; eben Enver Hoxha was written as Enver Hodzsa, though
Shakespeare is written Shakespear and not Se'kszpi'r...

{j} is in use for [j] only so available

>
> Using {sj} for /S/ would make it look a bit similar to Swedish (my native
> lang), tho' the Swedish realization is usually [x\] rather than [S].
>
Ya my cousin tried to teach me that tonguetwister with the sjo sjuk
sjomenn but I can't remember it...and I always wondered, is {Vaxjo}
pronounced like it was written {*vaksjo}?

>                                                        Andreas
>
> PS I guess I'd love it if you BOTH used the hac^ek as suggested above AND
> used the actue accent as length mark on both vowels and consonants. Seeing,
> I've got a bit of a soft spot for diacritics ...
You must love Vietnamese ;)

-------ferko
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