Re: phonemic spellin of "science"

At 22:17 09/05/00 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2000/05/09 10:06:05 PM, forty2 wrote:
>
>>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>>> And it's true that you mustn't insert anything (not even a schwa) in
>>> consonnant clusters, which is sometimes difficult.
>>
>>As in monsters like _sciencio_ /stsien'tsio/.  I feel really sorry for
>>people whose native language is Japanese or something with a similarly
>>restricted syllable-structure.
>
>okay, good topic... what would be  would a good alternative spellin' be?
>"siensio" /sie'ns'i'o/ or /si'ens'i'o/ ? or what?
>
The actual form has already passed through a "natural" reform. Everybody
always said: "scienco" /stsi'entso/, so it became the official form,
instead of /stsien'tsio/. Strangely, those endings in -io often tend to be
simplified, but not the consonnant clusters like /sts/. Yet /sts/ is used
in a very often used word (and not that difficult to pronounce if you try
it): scii /sts'i.i/: to know.

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