Re: More Etymology!

On Feb 19, 11:17 pm, Nathan Sanders <nsand...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Franz has of yet demonstrated no ability (or desire) to understand the
difference between phonemes and letters, but perhaps you might have
better luck educating him.

Prof. Dr. Nathan Sanders may not know that the
Roman letters were coined as phonemes of the Latin
tongue, and were still used in the sense of phonemes
by linguists in the nineteenth century (if he doesn't believe
me, he may ask Sleinad .T Retep vulgo Peter T. Daniels).
For Magdalenian, I use the Roman letters in the sense
of phonemes, with a few exceptions. Ph means a soft
F (you English and Americans can't discern between
them). A is A, not ay; E is E, not i; O is O, not a coyote's
howl; U is U, not a. Then there are the extra signs ) for
a special click (curve your tongue, let the tip of the tongue
slide along the palate, and let the tongue smack into its
wet bed) and -: (touch both lips with the tip of the tongue).
I use the cumbersome formulation of Magdalenian words
consisting of one or two or three letters or phonemes.
I go on using that formulation, for I don't believe that the
phonemes listed up in the IFA (International Fonetic Alfabet)
are the last word. Sooner or later there might be phiner
fonems, then I can refer to the unities I call letters. By
the way, Prof. Dr. Nathan Sanders: you told me that a few
words of a reconstructed language won't do, there must
be a considerable corpus. This made me look out for many
more Magdalenian words. In the end you are to blame for
my being so industrious mining Magdalenian words in here.
You also told me that my explanations are so close, you
miss bigger leaps. Yesterday I gave you an example of
a big distance between related words. English foot, feet
and seven are closely related. Is that a big enough gap
for you? Certainly as big a gap as between dough and
fiction, to mention a famous example for the power of
phonetic laws. Now it is my Magdalenian laws that link
foot feet and seven ...




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