Re: Common Orcish Article (Long) - was Re: tolkien?

Quoting Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>:

> Andreas Johansson palsalge
> >We'll, I don't particularly like it either, but with _me-_ "our" and
> >_paph_ "father" it's hard to avoid.
> >
> >(|ph| spells [p\] in case anyone was wondering.)
> >
> >                                                       Andreas
>
> Sounds ripe for dissimulation to me. How about changing one /p\/ to /T/ or
> /s/ or /h/?
Well, that would be a possibility ... but I think I'll leave it as is. If we
had dissimulation here, it ought to turn up in alot of other places too,
possibly with very unwanted consequences, and besides I think the connection
with the simplex would help keeping the /p\/'s in place (the shift /p/>/p\/ is
perfectively regular and productive after a prefix ending in a vowel).

I can't say I actively _dislike_ [me'p\ap\]; it just happens to be a word that
has no particular attraction to me.

                                                   Andreas

                                                      Andreas

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