Re: French spelling scheme

En réponse à BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:

>
> That is really **the** annoying thing with French orthography:
> deciding
> which final consonants are potentially silent and which are not.  Any
> reform scheme I would support must indicate this in some way, e.g. by
> doubling the never-silent final consonants, so that _aout_ would
> become
> _/ot_ in my scheme.
>
Hehe... Funny enough, in my Narbonósc final consonnants are *always* and *all*
silent ("amour" is pronounced /a'mu/ in N., and the name of the language itself
is pronounced /narbO'nos/), except in case of liaison when they *always* get
pronounced. If a noun ends in a non-silent consonnant, the orthography usually
marks it with a final silent -e, but another way of rendering this is indeed by
doubling the last consonnant, like the ending for the second person singular
past tense, which always ends in -ss /s/. Of course, Narbonósc has other
irregularities, like final silent consonnant *clusters* (like the -vs and -vt
clusters marking imperfect tense for second and third person singular, which are
not pronounced at all :) ). those appear only in conjugation and in very
isolated words, so as an average Narbonósc orthography is more regular than
French :) .

Christophe.

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