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Re: Dropping Q and C (was: Some isolating verb patterns)

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Sunday, January 16, 2005, 19:51
--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:

> On Saturday, January 15, 2005, at 11:09 , Gary > Shannon wrote: > [snip] > > Pascal also noted: "Besides, if it's Latin-based, > you > > should use q for kw." > > > > Just to be curmudgeonly I was planning on dropping > Q > > and C from my alphabet and using "KW", "K" and "S" > to > > replace them. > > ..and why not? It seems sensible to me - not > curmudgeonly ;)
<snip a lot of interesting observations> Funny you should mention some of those other examples. My "back story" is that a large group of illiterate Roman slaves, along with a handful of Greeks, got isolated on some island by a shipwreck. After a few generations they were exposed to pictographic writing by some Chinese sailors who happened by and left some documents behind. Having no writing system of their own, they adopted a simple pictographic style of writing. For simplicity of form, their writing was isolating and in time their speech began to follow the written customs and became isolating. Finally, who knows how many generations later, they again made contact with the western world, and being exposed to the Roman alphabet, they finally adopted it to fit how they spoke by that time. --gary