Re: reformed Welsh Spelling - comments?
| From: | Morgan Palaeo Associates <morganpalaeo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 4:30 |
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Robert Jung wrote:
> The following is a document called 'Reformed Welsh Spelling' that I
> just developed. As I find Welsh > spelling a bit difficult and
> puzzling, I decided to make it phonemic.
Don't you mean "_more_ phonemic"?
> old spelling=new spelling
>
> c=k
Why? It may be slightly easier for English speakers to read, but a lot
of k's make a text look awfully harsh, to my mind (spiky letters tend
to do that). And Welsh has a lot of /k/'s.
> ts=tc
Puzzling, given the above.
> l=l
> ll=ll
> m=m
> mh=mh
> n=n
> ngh=ngh
> nh=nh
Wouldn't it be more readable to say, "The following are unchanged:
[...] l, ll, m, mh, n, ngh, nh, [...]"? Putting some thought into
presentation can help the reader immensely.
You ought also to have included a paragraph in standard Welsh and in
your reformed version, so that we can see what it looks like.
Adrian.
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