En réponse à jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM :
> > It must be because for the Pictics, spelling
> > Maggel correctly is a matter of honour, and bad spelling can mean become an
> > outcast ;))) .
>
>Quite like the French, only more so, in fact. :-)
Except that we don't fine (yet ;) ) people for making spelling mistakes ;)) .
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
> >
> > I need to make a list. Do you have 200GB of space for it? ;)))
>
>Yes.
Lucky you :) .
>We're only too aware. But the question was a bit more specific - any instances
>of an orthographic kludge being used despite what it's indicating not being
>there? It would be something like putting a cedilla on a French 'c',
>despite it
>being pronounced /k/.
I was answering specifically to that indeed :) . I don't have an example at
hand (no time to check my notes), but I'm pretty sure you find words with
an unpronounced 's' which doesn't tense the following consonant, or with an
unpronounced 'g' which doesn't lengthen the vowel of the next syllable. The
problem is to diagnose correctly those cases in an orthography that doesn't
seem to care about representing actual pronunciation ;)) .
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.