Re: phonemic spellin of "science"

Jonathan Chang wrote:
> okay, good topic... what would be  would a good alternative spellin' be?
> "siensio" /sie'ns'i'o/ or /si'ens'i'o/ ? or what?
Better yet would've been if he'd used <c> = /k/, for /skien'kio/ (or
even esciencio, /eskien'kio/), or at least esciencio, /estsien'tsio/.
But, what's done is done.

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/!).

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