Re: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful)

Muke Tever sikyal:

> Sure. But every language has its own orthography, which gives it its own
> particular taste and feeling. Those orthographies are not the result of
> somebody's clever thinking, but emerged in a natural way.
> Is it logical to represent [i] as |ie|, like Dutch and German do?
> Is it logical to have |ei|, |oi| and |è| sound like [i], while |ai| sounds
> like [E], as is the case in Modern Greek?
> IF you want to create two different spellings in your conlang for [e] and
> [E], than IMHO |ei| is the most obvious way. Nothing particularly risky
> or adventurous about that!
You're welcome, of course, to orthographize however you want.  I find that
|ei| for [E] is very unintuitive, that's all.  Obviously, that hasn't kept
natlangs from doing it, and it shouldn't keep you.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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