Re: New Conlang: S4
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 9, 2001, 8:03 |
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En réponse à Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...>:
>
> Aren't these fairly common? Old English had them, didn't it? At least,
> /hr/
> (The cognate word for 'right' maybe?), /hl/ (its cognate word for
> 'laugh'
> and 'loaf') and /hw/ (hw&t). And Modern English has /hj/, and /hw/ in
> some
> conservative dialects.
>
I thought they were voiceless approximants, rather than aspirates?
> (Incidental note to Christophe: you don't put a comma before or after an
> em
> dash.)
>
Maybe not in English punctuation, but you do in French, and I find it clearer
this way. Em-dashes work quite like parentheses, and I think it's clearer to
use them that way. But my punctuation style is full of those kinds of
idiosyncrasies (like my absolute refusal to use the semi-colon, mostly for
aesthetic reasons, but also because I find that it makes sentences much too
heavy). I can switch to "correct" punctuation when needed.
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr