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Re: reformed Welsh Spelling - comments?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, December 4, 2003, 5:27
Nik Taylor scripsit:
> Stephen Mulraney wrote: > > Welsh looks like nothing else on earth, and looks as beautiful as it > > sounds, too. > > Welsh may look like nothing else on Earth,
Actually, it looks very much like Brithenig, not too surprisingly. But less intelligible, at least to me. -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan "After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.reutershealth.com Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) jcowan@reutershealth.com issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all _The Languages of China_ to be called Manchus."