Re: Zvelebil/Epstein/McReynold Comparison
Rob Zook 
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:42:39 -0500

At 04:49 PM 7/10/98 -0500, Saul Epstein wrote:
>Quotes from: Rob Zook <rzook*informix,com>
>Date: Friday, July 10, 1998 3:26 PM
>
>
>>Original                                  Brit
>>Zvelebil: Epstein:  Zook:     Reynolds:   English:
>
>
>also:
>    ch        tc        ?         ch         church

Yup missed that one. I'd put it as tc as well.


>>Saul, if you've revised your system, please repost the thing in it's
>>entirety. Not everyone may have kept up with all those posts. I just
>>posted the orginal, as I remember it.
>
>I haven't revised it beyond abandoning the extra vowels. You remember
>it accurately as far as I can tell, and I'll be going through it all
>in a future post to explain its motivations.
>
>Incidentally, to further confuse matters, I can see a lot of
>possibility in the direction of some of Ryan's suggestions.
>Especially, if we use <c> and <j> for the sounds in "church" and
>"judge" respectively, that eliminates one of the two-character signs
>(<ch>) and one of the three-character signs (<dzh>). 

Well, the only thing I don't like about that is it seems less elegant
than having the symbols for that set of sounds structurally similar
to the IPA versions. With <j> for <zh> and <dj> for <dzh>, and <c>
for <sh> and <tc> for <ch>. Those I definitely liked, but hey I'm
easy about it do, and <c> for <ch> does look a little more recognizable
than <c> for <sh>, if less accurate phonetically.


>Also, if we follow the logic of <kh> for /x/, we could use <ph> for /f/, 
>freeing <f> to represent the voiceless W (currently at <w~>) and thereby
>eliminating the other three-character sign (<w~l>) by replacing it
>with <fl>...

Now, this idea, I do like. Maybe we can come up with a combination of
our three sets of likes and dislikes (and anything else that comes up),
that we all can live with?

I think we got two votes for the vowel+h diagraphs (hint, hint :).


Rob Z.

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