Re: reformed Welsh Spelling - comments?
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 5, 2003, 20:59 |
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--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> > Well, that was rather the point! Welsh sound
> > changes - Welsh orthography!
>
> No, it wasn't. [...]
>
> No, Andrew was not taking the simplistic line:
> let's take Vulgar Latin
> and apply Welsh sound changes & Welsh spelling.
> All changes were very
> carefully thought through. It was Andrew's
> thoroughness that I found most
> attractive about Brithenig.
I never said it wasn't thorough; and I never said
it was simplistic. I may exagerate some, but the
fact remains that he applied similar sound
changes that happened in Welsh and there is quite
an obvious Welsh influence (too much, I think,
but that's neither here nor there) on the
spelling.
Padraic.
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la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.
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