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Re: phonemic spellin of "science"

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 10, 2000, 2:41
In a message dated 2000/05/10 02:37:03 AM, Nik wrote:

>It's clusters like that that give Esperanto an ugly sound, IMHO. /sts/, >/kn/, /kv/ (and why kvar and not kwar?) are hideous, I think. > >Of course, /sts/ can also occur in English as in "guests" (or worse yet, >"guest's story", with /stst/!).
Well, tha's why Inglis has the infamous reputation of being "the hissing language."