> Ference Valoczy wrote:
> The weirdity is in the relation to other language that also use the Latin
> alphabet. {s} is /s/ pretty much everywhere else. One could also think they
> could've copied the Polish system that's quite similar except the opposit
> values of {s} and {sz}.
Well, remember that Enrico Fermi was convinced we're aliens... ;)
>
> Hm, what about re-spelling Hungarian like this:
>
> {s} = /s/
> {z} = /z/
> {c} = /ts/
> {sz} = /S/
> {zz} = /Z/
> {cz} = /tS/
>
Hm, what would we do about geminate [z]?
> Sure, it'd look like Polish (except {zz} in place of {rz}), but it'd be
> easier for us non-magyars to learn. Or even better, replace the three last
> with {s^}, {z^} and {c^} (the circumflexes should be hac^eks of course).
> Would save space by making words shorter!
>
Hm; nyaktekereszetimellfekvenc would be n'aktekeresetimellfekvenc...not
much shorter ;)
> Andreas
>
> PS Now I OBVIOUSLY don't mean that your current orthography is bad or
> anything like that. As I said, in itself it's quite nice. See my comments
> above as what I might've done if I was the guy who designed the Hungarian
> orthography.
I've played around with all sorts; from adding hacheks like Czech to
writing it in Cyrillic to a bastardised Devanagari... =)
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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