Aga Tentakulus > 09-02-2021, 11:39 PM
davidjackson > 09-02-2021, 11:51 PM
(09-02-2021, 11:02 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are many languages in which "q" occurs in numerous places in the word: "aqua" "cinque" "quinque" "pourquois" "bisque" (and others do not have "q").In Spanish (or Portuguese):
DONJCH > 10-02-2021, 01:22 AM
(09-02-2021, 11:38 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So how can you defend that 15th century "German" (whatever that means) is equivalent in any way to the modern day language used in Germany?
-JKP- > 10-02-2021, 01:34 AM
(09-02-2021, 11:39 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's just philosphy.
But maybe it's there and we just don't see it.
He could also write acua.
You're right, there are many languages where it occurs. But he probably only uses one.
-JKP- > 10-02-2021, 01:38 AM
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ReneZ > 10-02-2021, 06:42 AM
(10-02-2021, 01:34 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Natural languages are not constructed that way
-JKP- > 10-02-2021, 09:33 AM
Aga Tentakulus > 10-02-2021, 01:34 PM
ReneZ > 10-02-2021, 01:43 PM
(10-02-2021, 09:33 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Even syllabic languages have more leeway to use syllables in various positions in a word
Emma May Smith > 10-02-2021, 06:50 PM
(10-02-2021, 06:42 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
All these open options depend on whether the text is rather based on a written original or a spoken original.
Just to give an example: if word-initial o is any vowel, then the preceding q could be a glottal stop or an aspiration (spoken original).