Re: Son of dZ

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Raymond A. Brown scripsit:

> Are Welsh 'garej', 'sosej' etc hideous?
> 
> I don't see anything hideous per se - tho the overuse of final -j in
> Esperanto does give that language a perculiar inelegance  ;)

Only in the Brithenig context, of course!

> Indeed, we would.  One could, of course, follow Romanian practice where
> final -i merely denotes palatalization (final /i/ must be written {ii}) and
> have 'ffeligi' and 'ynci' respectively.   But, unlike English, neither the
> Romance nor the Celtic langs have eschewed diacritics.  I agree with John
> that a final -g and final -c with a diacritic (either a dot or an acute
> seem most likely) is probably the best solution.

I actually meant a literal apostrophe, as if something had been omitted
there; a false etymology to be sure, but a plausible scribal practice.

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John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.