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Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

From:Carlos Thompson <carlos_thompson@...>
Date:Sunday, June 13, 1999, 19:58
Nik wrote:

> Question: About this, and German's, <ue> convention, does actual <ue> > not exist in German? Because it seems to me that if it did, there coul=
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> be confusion over whether <ue> meant <u"> or "really" <ue>, as can > happen at times with the <nn> for <n~> convention in ASCII-fied Spanish=
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> <nn> is found at times in words, where the prefix in- is added to a wor=
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> starting with n- (which is why some use <ny> for <n~>).
Well. Actually <ny> is also found... well, all two letter combinations I= 've seen for <=F1> (<n~>) have this flaw, lets say: nn (Old Spanish convention): like "anno" /aJo/ or "innovar" /inoBar/ ny (Catalan convention): like "anyo" /aJo/ or "inyectar" /inj\ektar/ gn (French/Italian convention): like "agno" /ajo/ or "gnomo" /nomo/ or "i'gneo" /iGneo/ ni: like "anio" /aJo/ or "Sonia" /so.nja/ (where /J/ is the palatal nasal and /j\/ is the palatal fricative) -- Carlos Th