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

--- 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