Re: My web page

Eli Naeher wrote:
> X I do want
> to keep, but hadn't been able to figure out where to fit it on a phonology
> chart--it seems like two seperate sounds.  Or does that make it an
> affricate?  (It will be pronounced as in English.)
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/

> I have been worrying about this myself.  I really don't want to assign
> each noun a permanent class, but I don't know whether basing the
> inflection on the actual meaning has any natlang precedents.
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.

> approach also introduces ambiguities--is a stream a place or a thing?
Make it arbitrary.  Choose one or the other class, just as natural
languages do frequently with gender systems.

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