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

On Sunday, January 16, 2005, at 11:35 , B. Garcia wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:50:31 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
> wrote:
[snip]
>> Frater which,  like Gary's conlang, is isolating and takes the bulk of
>> its
>> vocabulary from Latin & Greek, certainly does not adhere to Latin
>> spelling.
>>   It uses "K" or "S"  for Latin C (it doesn't have semivowels, so Latin
>> QV
>> is rendered simply as "K").
>
> I personally dig using K wherever possible.
So do I   :)

> I could've done it in
> Montreiano, but to give that "related to Spanish feel" i felt I needed
> to keep similar spelling conventions (although mine are a little more
> like how Old Spanish used to be spelt).
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> On Monday, January 17, 2005, at 12:46 , Tristan McLeay wrote:
[snip]
>> I will use C when it's appropriate (for giving a certain flavor), but
>> as my tastes tend towards non-European style languages, K usually
>> gives it that non-European flavor i'm looking for.
Non-European? But K is used extensively in all the Germanic languages
except English, in all the Slav langs, the Baltic langs, in Finnish &
Hungarian, and in minority langs like Basque, Breton and Cornish (in the
Kemmyn spellings, which is the most widely used spelling). I reckon that
counts for by far the larger part of Europe.

Maybe you mean non-Anglo-Romance    ;)

> I just reckon C's underrated, that's all ;)
How so? While K almost invariably denotes only /k/ in both natlangs and
conlangs, C has had a great time denoting all sorts of other sounds such
as /s/, /ts/, /tS/, /S/, /dZ/, /T/, /|\/ and, I am sure, some others
besides /k/ - not bad for a letter than began its life as /g/   :)

Ray
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