From mark@xxx.xxxx Tue Sep 28 09:03:36 1999 X-Digest-Num: 247 Message-ID: <44114.247.1357.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: 28 Sep 1999 16:03:36 -0000 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:47:00 -0700 >From: Ivan A Derzhanski >Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science > >From: Ivan A Derzhanski > >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