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Re: Silent E

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Monday, October 8, 2001, 14:07
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:32:14 +0100 Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
writes:
> Russian and Gaelic: two languages with palatalised consonants. > Russian has it easy -- it has it's own alphabet that's suited to > writing stuff in it with. Gaelic, on the other hand, has to make do > with an alphabet completely unsuited to it. Instead it uses a kludge > with vowels to get the right effect. Of course, this means that > outsiders look at the language with bewilderment.
> -- > Keith Gaughan In the land of the blind, the > kmgaughan@eircom.net one-eyed man is a heretic > http://www.geocities.com/keithgaughan/ [Temporarily] >
- So you're saying that Gaelic writing would be more user-friendly if it was written in Cyrillic? :-) Would it work? Does Cyrillic have all the necessary sounds for Gaelic? -Stephen (Steg) "mmm... apple pah...."

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