Re: phonemic spellin of "science"

On Second Fire of Tenderness of first Red Cat, Nik Taylor wrote:


> 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?
Well, more than an alternative spellin' an alternative vocabulary...

> 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.
Why, /kv/ is a nice cluster even resticting /v/ from becoming aproximant...
;-)

> Of course, /sts/ can also occur in English as in "guests" (or worse yet,
> "guest's story", with /stst/!).
Or clusters like _next_ /kst/... or how 'bout "The next's better" with an
interesting /ksts/.  But well, those clusters are okay for me as longer as
are syllable final, which Eo's sciencio is not.

-- Carlos Th