Re: CHAT: weird names

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> 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.
True, different orthographies can give different impressions, like, say,
for /Dajek/, one could write:
=D0ajec (=D0 =3D edh)
=D0ajek
=D0ayec
=D0ayek
Dhajec
Dhajek
Dhayec
Dhayek

In my opinion, the Dh looks kind of "dark" or "barbaric".  And <j> I
always associate with /dZ/ or /Z/.  I'd probably use =D0ayek or Dhayek.=20
The <c> just looks out of place to me in all of them, for some reason.

Interesting how different spellings can give different impressions.

--=20
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