Re: Basque onddo

At 8:56:03 AM on Sunday, November 11, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@...>
> wrote:

>> You are an incompetent fool.

> I agree. An Italian colleague of mine once said that the
> British land didn't produce real linguists but only
> *crackpots*.

Irrelevant: I'm not British. Neither are a majority of my
ancestors, for that matter. And neither was Edwin B.
Williams, the Hispanicist whose views I was paraphrasing.

> Mistaking Portuguese <n> for a "consonantal /n/" is an
> example of sheer incompetence.

I'm perfectly well aware of the use of <n> as a nasal
diacritic in Portuguese orthography. The terminology
'consonantal n' is Williams's, not mine. He appears to take
the view that a consonantal /n/ *did* develop in certain
settings and subsequently dropped, leaving a nasalized
vowel.