Re: Turkey (Re: cecla fanta flalu)

["Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>]

>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:11:54 -0700
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
>Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
>
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
>
>Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>> Yes, "turkie" is what I was complaining about; you missed the final
>> consonant so it isn't a valid cmene [...].  Hmm.  Should it have been
>> {turki,es}?  I don't know Turkish.
>
>No, but you know Hebrew, so you're familiar with the Semitic feminine
>ending whose forms alternate between /t/ and /h/ or nothing (the former
>typically under liaison, the latter usually before pause).  This is
>an Arabic toponym, and if it is to be made into a cmene, the natural
>choice for a final consonant is {t}.

Maybe true; I wasn't referring to the choice of the final consonant
(frankly, I never much cared for {s} as the "default" that it's sort of
become anyway.  I'd probably prefer {n} or {l}).  I was talking about using
{i,e} instead of {ie}.

~mark