[Spellyans] More on bys/bes words and diacritical marks

[Mary Williams]

I wonder what this list is really for. Michael asks for opinions, but
when anyone disagrees with his own view he tells them they're wrong.
Then he says the matter is closed and it has to be how he has decided.
Sorry, but what's the point of asking people to take the time to make
helpful suggestions and then ignoring them?



By the way, Craig appears to have just demonstrated that doing accents isn't a simple matter for us mere mortals.



Mary

--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
Subject: Re: [Spellyans] More on bys/bes words and diacritical marks
To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
Date: Friday, 11 July, 2008, 9:22 PM

At 09:34 +0000 2008-07-11, Tom Trethewey wrote:

>I agree that there are three "classes of words" 
>here.  I do not agree with the suggested 
>pronunciations.

Evidently not.

>It would be much simpler to write the third class with <y>.

People who say [e:] do not believe that <y> is an 
acceptable graph for this. We proposed <ei> as an 
acceptable graph to us. That wasn't acceptable to 
the KK representatives. We have ended up with 
some words in <e>, some words in <y>, and a class 
of words in <e>~<y>, and KS will mark this last 
class as <ë>~<ÿ> because the ambiguity is 
intolerable.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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