Re: CHAT: weird names

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> > > I like it. How's the "C" pronounced?
> >
> > Always /k/ though it may be slightly palatalized before /e/ or /i/
> > (not here, obviously).
>
> Interesting.  I wonder how many other people use {c} for /k/?
> Personally, I dislike that letter for /k/, but that's just a personal
> prejudice of mine.
Well, I have the opposite prejudice :-)

Valdyan has its own script and everything I write in the Latin
alphabet is just a transcription, so it doesn't really matter. One of
the first Valdyan words I knew was _craz_ "black", and I wrote it
like that when I first thought of it and never changed the spelling.

I tried to do a more scholarly transcription - 'k' for /k/ - but it
looked very wrong to me, as if Valdyan was suddenly an ugly guttural
language.

I also went from 'j' to 'y' for /j/, but it's now firmly back at 'j'.

   Irina

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