Re: Orthography question for the group.

Stone Gordonssen sikyal:

> I'm curious to know indivual's perferences with regards to using the latin
> alphabet for certain orthographic mappings.
>
> E.g.
> [ts] could be rendered _ts_ or _z_ so long as any reader is prewarned of
> either mapping and orthographic ambiguities could be resolved. The same with
Or to |c|, my preference.

> [S] as _x_ or _sh_, etc.
> However, which is more pleasing to the eye, assuming the goal is to be
> readily apparent rather than obscured?
This depends very much on your goal. If you want to look Slavic, go with
|c|. |z| will look more German, or to me "rougher". ([tsen] is a
fine-sounding word, but the spelling "zen" does it injustice. "Cen" is
beautiful, though.) As for [S], I prefer |x|.

Unless I'm writing for a Muggle[1], English-speaking audience, I avoid
things like "sh" and "ts" for those sequences.

[1] By "Muggle" I mean "not linguistically educated or inclined", of
course.


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