Tristan McLeay wrote:
> I'm fiddling around with the Old Føtisk nominal inflexions or whatever
> we call them, and just want to know if /dZ/+/s/ -> [tSs] at the end of
> a word is perfectly cromulent?
I had to google for "cromulent"...
<http://www.abc.net.au/classic/breakfast/stories/s835155.htm>
We oughta invent a Germanic-sounding synonym!
> Obviously, we get
> Hrøgj- /hr2dZ/ -> Hrøgjes
> with an expected pronunciation of [hr2tSs]. My English intuition tells
> me that's naughty, but is my English intuition the one who's being bad?
Since devoicing assimilation is the normal thing in Germanic
outside that Franco-bastard English I say [hr2tSs] or even
[hr2tS] is the expected pronunciation.
>
> (The language lacks a /tS/ phoneme.)
You have a /dZ/ but no /tS/? Any idea how many universals that may
break!? ;) Actually if that is the case I think that [tS] as the
surface realization of /dZs/ and then becoming a marginal phoneme seems
a naturalistic course of events. It also provides |gjs| as a freaky
spelling for [tS] in foreign words like |Jusjgjsenko|! ;)
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> Tristan.
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