Re: Un-neccesary letters (was: Re: New/revised language: Phonology)

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> Quoting Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>:
>
> > >> (personally, i've always
> > >> felt x was an exceedingly pointless letter but that's just
> personal
> > bias)
> >
> > But I dont think this reflects negatively on the letter, I think
> > English would a lot less interesting without. Losing x would be
> > like taking "gh" out of "knight".
>
> Because Phaleran has *gained* phonemes, rather than lost them,
> since the times of its ancestor, nonphonemic writing is of a
> wholly different nature, since you get all sorts of vowels where
> vowels no longer exist.
<sigh> I meant to say:  "... where vowels might never have existed."
(i.e., Sometimes, the vowels that existed in Tlaspi are retained in
spelling; other times, when new lexemes come about that don't share
the syllable structure of Tlaspi, vowels often have to be inserted
for the sake of the orthography.)

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