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Alternative ways of expressing Diarectic Marks

ya ryanpg, 6 Novemba 2013

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Lugha: English

Fenris_kcf (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Novemba 2013 8:12:55 asubuhi

Vespero_:I think that one of the main reasons Ŭ is used instead of W is that W is a consonant and Ŭ acts as a semi-vowel. Except in exclamations, Ŭ never starts words.
A letter itself can't be classified as a consonant, vowel or semi-vowel. It's the mapping to a sound that decides. The Esperanto "ŭ" maps to the semi-vowel [w] just as the English "w" does (in most cases). So this replacement would even bring the orthography of Esperanto closer to IPA.

sudanglo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Novemba 2013 10:52:08 asubuhi

Ŭ never starts words.
Ŭaŭ! Tion mi ne sciis.

Bruso (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Novemba 2013 11:51:37 asubuhi

sudanglo:
Ŭ never starts words.
Ŭaŭ! Tion mi ne sciis.
Ŭhat ŭould ŭe ŭrite ŭithout ŭ's?

Nile (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Novemba 2013 1:32:33 alasiri

Ux actually doesn't even occur in onsets.
Just as I has the semivowel J, U has Ux and V.
V appearing at onsets and Ux in codas. They're almost allophones.

bartlett22183 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Novemba 2013 7:39:53 alasiri

Bemused:
bartlett22183:Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away ridulo.gif I was one of those people who strenuously subscribe to the "Big Three" objections to Esperanto, one of which is the supersigned letters.
Interesting, so what are the other two big objections?
Are those objections unique to speakers of English, or are they shared with speakers of other languages?
1) The supersigned letters which are used in no other orthography on earth. 2) The -n morpheme. 3) Adjectival agreement.

At one time I subscribed to all three of these objections. As I mentioned above, once I decided to take fifteen minutes of effort with a modern computer system, objection 1) became so trivial as no longer to be worth seriously considering. 3) might still have minor consideration for me, but it is not worth overwhelming a century and a quarter of fluent usage and is not that major a matter. 2) I have come to consider has some practical value in all the Esperanto texts I have read in recent years, and again, I do not consider it worth monkeying with.

Consequently, I personally no longer hold to the "Big Three" objections.

Ondo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Novemba 2013 7:58:35 alasiri

Nile:Ux actually doesn't even occur in onsets.
Just as I has the semivowel J, U has Ux and V.
V appearing at onsets and Ux in codas. They're almost allophones.
You are getting very very close to the truth, Nile.

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