Re: Droppin' Ds

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:

>- A more special rule comes to my mind: [au] becomes [a] before stressed
>[u]: _August(um)_ > Old French _aoust_, Sp. and Pg. _Agosto_; auscultare
>> Old Spanish _ascuchar_, and a couple other examples. But, interestingly,
>all of them seem to be about the initial [au] (OTOH, I can't immediately
>recall a Latin word with non-initial [au] before [u]).
Was the -u- accented in OS ascucar?

>> If you just want a "fun
>>language" made up indiscrimately of bits & pieces of different Romance
>>langs, then it doesn't matter a great deal what you do.  But tho the
>result
>>may be fun, do not expect it to look like (or sound like) a 'natural'
>>Romance lang.  If you want to derive a plausible 'alternate' Romancelang
>>then you have to use consistent 'rules' based on those actually attested.
>
>- Hear! hear!
Or at least come up with a novel rule and apply it consistently!

Padraic.

>Basilius