[Spellyans] <yn> & <in> & <en>

[Daniel Prohaska]

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From: A. J. Trim
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:36 AM

 

"How would Middle Cornish folk know whether to spell with <y> or <i>?

They would need to know how the spelling progressed in Late Cornish. 

That's OK for super linguists but tricky for Joe Blogs."

 

Joe Blogs wouldn't need to know. That's what a dictionary is there for.

 

"Spelling by sound is easier than spelling by future language development.

However, if it could be done, it would make the electronic substitution of
<e> for <y> nice and easy."

 

That's what I meant.

Dan

 

 

 

From: Daniel <mailto:daniel at ryan-prohaska.com>  Prohaska 

Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:04 PM

To: 'Standard <mailto:spellyans at kernowek.net>  Cornish discussion list' 

Subject: [Spellyans] <yn> & <in> & <en>

 

<in> in Revived Cornish is unknown (except for the latest version of KS). In
UC/R and KK it was always <yn> and usually <en> in RLC (Revived Late
Cornish). 

As far as the distribution of e ~ i ~ y goes, I would like to see RMC
(Revived Middle Cornish) <y> where LC (Late Cornish) has <e> and <i>
everywhere else. 

That would make <y> easily replaceable with <e> for RLC users and <i> would
remain for both. 

Dan  

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