Re: YAGPT: Carsten (was Re: Vertical script)

Sorry to belabor a point that has so little bearing on your actual
question.  But if it was at one time Car-sten, what prevented the [s]
from becoming [S] in accordance with the usual initial-cluster
phonology?

On 9/19/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:14:44 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
> >Inconsistent you are being, Carsten:
>
> I'm sorry :-S
>
> >CB> Whoops. Yes, I was misguided by hyphenation rules: Cars-ten.
> >
> >From that "Yes", I infer that you agree with Phillip that the syllable
> >division lies before the [stn=].
>
> >CB> It's true that <st> becomes [St] in syllable onsets, but it's not
> >the case here.
> >
> >Why is that not the case here?  You just said (above) that you agreed
> >with Phillip that it *is* the case here.   So now I'm confused.  Where
> >do the syllables in your name break?
>
> Orthographically, it'd now be Cars-ten, which is one possiblity, but Car-
> sten would also be acceptible, that's the problem. Which one of both I
> prefer I don't know myself. The only orthographically valid way to
> hyphenate "Carsten" is Cars-ten NOW, but it USED to be Car-sten.
>
> C.
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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