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

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Thursday, April 5, 2001, 20:37
> >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 ...
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