Re: My web page

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Well, it seems to me very unlikely that another script would happen to
> create a single character for /ks/.  It's not an affricate, an affricate
> is a homorganic (produced in the same place) sequence of stop and
> fricative, like /kx/ or /ts/
Ahh.  And I suppose the same applies to q.  OK...I will try to remove
those from the list ASAP.

> Gender?  Latin came close, using -i for genitive singular only for one
> group of masculine or neuter nouns, and -ae for one group of feminine.
> Make it arbitrary.  Choose one or the other class, just as natural
> languages do frequently with gender systems.
I suppose that's the only reasonable choice, but as a native English
speaker I don't like having to remember set noun classes--it was bad
enough trying to remember two with Latin and Welsh, let alone five...I
could drop the inflections altogether, I suppose.

> I love this sig.
Thanks.  Melville is great.

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