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R: <c>, was: Re: help! phonology...

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Thursday, October 26, 2000, 15:58
Patrick Dunn wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Roger Mills wrote: > > > > > Irina Rempt wrote: > > > > > > >On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > > > > > > >> I was thinking that "c" wouldn't suggest /c/ to the average
reader...
> > > > > > > >I may not be an average reader, but it does suggest /k/ to me. But > > > >then that's what I use <c> for in Valdyan, and I was brought up on > > > >the Latin pronunciation that has /kajsar/ for "Caesar".> > > > > > > Same here, but "c" is almost always a problem, and perhaps ought to be > > > banished ;-). Whenever I see "c" in a con- or natlang, I immediately
look
> > > around for an explanation. Does it mean Romance /k ~ s/, Slavic and > > > American Indianist /ts/, Sanskrit/Indonesian/Kash /tS/, IPA palatal
stop
> > > (which I've never figured out)....? etc. etc. > > I hate <k>. I think it's an ugly spiky letter and I refuse to use it if I > can possibly avoid it. I almost always use <c> for /k/.
You're right, I, too, don't particularly like it, but I use it in Vaiysi. As you I prefer the round <c> to the spiky <k> Luca Luca