tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224206690870340098.post7321062045094537180..comments2023-10-12T05:32:56.675-04:00Comments on Manuscripts Burn: "Z" is for "Zero Hour"Stephen Kozeniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185600045044927669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224206690870340098.post-20688695601437375662015-07-30T11:17:20.152-04:002015-07-30T11:17:20.152-04:00Corrected.
"Ch" is a different sound. ...Corrected.<br /><br />"Ch" is a different sound. It has nothing to do with the "c" or the "h," that's just how we represent it in the Latin alphabet. Just like a glottal stop isn't really the sound of an apostrophe. And if a glottal stop IS the sound of an apostrophe why don't we pronounce every apostrophe?<br /><br />Consider Cyrillic. 32 letters, because there are 32 basic sounds. "Ch" is represented by "Ч ." Their "S" is always an "S" sound. Their "K" is always a "K" sound. Weirdly elegant, no?<br /><br />Meanwhile, we combine our letters will-nilly because we only have 26. So we have to create our "sh" and "ch" and etc. to get up to 32 sounds. "C" is a bastard letter. Now, if you proposed to remove "C" and replace it with a "Ch" symbol, I'd be on board.Stephen Kozeniewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185600045044927669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224206690870340098.post-77958244623908666122015-07-30T09:37:14.081-04:002015-07-30T09:37:14.081-04:00Two things: You had been doing so well on your its...Two things: You had been doing so well on your its/it's. But you slipped in the second paragraph. (Reminder: its = possessive, it's = contraction of "it is.")<br /><br />Also, to quibble with your vilification of 'c' as useless, can either 's' or 'k' help to create the sound of 'ch'? carlmacshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07081939493507757924noreply@blogger.com