Re: Orthography help needed
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 9, 2004, 0:25 |
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Joe wrote at 2004-04-06 20:14:36 (+0100)
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> >On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:19:01PM -0400, Trebor Jung wrote:
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> >>What are those characters? They aren't readable by me.
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> >>
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> >Which is one of the reasons I'm reluctant to include them in the
> >orthography. I'd like to stick to Latin-1 if possible.
> >
> >The characters are edh, eng, thorn, and theta, respectively. At
> >least edh and thorn are in Latin-1, so these should be legible:
> ><$,3u=(B>, <$,3u=(B>. I might end up admitting them, but I'm reluctant to
> >introduce unfamiliar letters.
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> >
> >
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> You know, I don't really like calling it 'edh', because that diagraph is
> ufamiliar to English, and that's not the sound it has represented in
> English either(at least not consistently). I really do prefer 'eth'.
If I might offer a counter-argument: While the letter in question did
not consistently represent /D/ in Old English, it does in Icelandic
and in the IPA and our use of the letter here normally reflects this.
As such, it seems reasonable to pronounce it as /ED/ rather than /ET/.
A final /D/ after a short vowel is extremely unusual in English and
the natural pronunciation of |eth| is surely /ET/. For these reasons
I prefer the spelling "edh".
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