Re: Polysemy
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 21, 2003, 6:24 |
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On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>
>> On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 08:17 AM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>>
[snip]
>>> Remind me; how would "bs" be pronounced in the various incarnations?
>>
>> 'briefscript', I assume. That how I've always pronounced BrSc. When
>> the language settles, it will have to be given a proper name of its own.
>> What that'll be is still a mystery to me :)
>
> I guess I don't need to tell that I've tended to think of "BrSc" as [br`=
> sk] ...
Oh dear! In fact none of the various transmogrifications of 'briefscript'
would
ever have permitted a word pronounced [br`=sk]. Another good reason,
methinks,
to drop the cumbersome BrSc.
> But why couldn't "bs" _be_ the proper name of bs in bs?
It could in BS.2 (or BS.3, but that is probably a non-starter) but 'twould
be no
good in BS.1 - if you see what I mean :)
Umm - maybe all this is a further incentive to sort things out, decide
which
model I'm going with & give the things a real proper name.
Ray
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