Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)

On 5/30/06, wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> wrote:
> My idea goes like this:
>
>         <ux>    ->      <w>
>         <j>     ->      <j>
>         <jx>    ->      <zy> or <jy>
>         <cx>    ->      <cy>
>         <sx>    ->      <sy>
>         <gx>    ->      <xy> or <gy>
>                 <dz>         ->            <x>
Beyond <ux> to <w>, which is already used by many people who otherwise
use the -x digraphs, none of those feels like an improvement.

Fine, since everyone is taking this seriously.  Lessee what we have:

-x:    a b c  cx d e f g gx h hx i j jx k l m n o p r s sx t u w v z
CXS: a b ts tS d e f g dZ h x  i j Z  k l m n o p r s S  t u w v z

If I were going to change anything - which I am not proposing. I have
no desire to become the creator of Idido or whatever! - I would first
merge <k> and <hx> into a single phoneme; most of the words with <hx>
have alternates with <k> anyway, and [k] is a common realization of
[x] in languages which lack the latter sound.

I would then divide all the affricates into their component
stop+fricative sounds.  If we're going to be forced to use digraphs
anyway, they might as well be digraphs that make logical sense.  Of
course, you could then reanalyze the affricates as realizations of a
two-phoneme set and poof!  No digraphs at all. :)

Then we'd just need symbols for /S/ and /Z/ and we're done.  For maximum
comprehensibility, I propose switching to <y> for /j/, then using <j>
for /Z/.  Which leaves the question of what to use for /S/; I can see
arguments for both <c> and <x> (the latter mostly in that it's used
that way in some Asian transcription systems).  I choose c.

That gives us this:

CXS    iksoj  MJR
a          a        a
b          b        b
ts         c         ts
tS        cx       tc
d          d       d
e         e        e
f          f          f
g         g        g
dZ       gx      dj
h         h         h
x         hx       k
i           i         i
j           j         y
k         k         k
l           l          l
m        m        m
n         n         n
o         o         o
p         p         p
r          r          r
s         s         s
S        sx        c
t          t           t
u         u         u
w        ux       w
v         v         v
z         z         z

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