From mark@xxx.xxxx Tue Sep 28 08:56:20 1999 X-Digest-Num: 247 Message-ID: <44114.247.1356.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: 28 Sep 1999 15:56:20 -0000 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:11:54 -0700 >From: Ivan A Derzhanski >Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science > >From: Ivan A Derzhanski > >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