Re: Turkey (Re: cecla fanta flalu)

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

>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:47:00 -0700
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
>Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
>
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
>
>Robin Turner wrote:

>> On the other hand, I wouldn't want to get etymological with cmene
>> and fu'ivla.  [...]  A final consonant needs to be as unobtrusive
>> as possible, so I'd still go for {s}.
>
>Acoustically a voiceless sibilant is about as obtrusive as they get,
>and it makes the name sound sort of Greek, which in this case is
>almost obscene (you know why).  I'd rather cauterise a cmene by
>something motivated from the point of view of the source language
>(the way Nic^jo N. called himself {nitcion.}, making use of a
>consonant-final inflected form of his Esperanto name, rather than
>attach a random consonant to the vowel-final citation form).

Yeah, like I just said, I never cared for {s} as a final consonant unless
called-for.  Makes it sound plural to English-accustomed ears, too.

Actually, I always thought {nitcion.} was because it occurred in that form
in Esperanto, in accusative.  Either way.

~mark