Re: Gz^rod|in (Grammar : verbs)

Patrick Dunn, I think, wrote, quoting myself:

> > And because it's not _that_ hard, surely :-)
> > What, five out of 29 letters, or thereabouts,
> > perform totally unfamiliar functions? :-)
>
> LOL -- considering things like Sanskrit and Japanese,
> nyah, not that hard.
Quite. You should see my drafts. Originally,
'dd' was the only way to say /n/ and 'bb' was
the only way to say /m/. Furthermore, the
character 'm' placed after a letter performed
the function that a diacritical mark now
performs, and 'n' was once going to mean,
"Repeat most recent double letter". And that's
only the consonants. In an earlier draft of
the vowels, only a minority corresponded to
English usage whereas now it's most of them.

Adrian.
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