Re: Irish spelling

Michael Everson scripsit:

> Only because what you are saying is rubbish. Why do you consider=20
> Gaelic orthography to be eccentric? It marks the palatal and=20
> non-palatal consonant series rather well, and indicates consonant=20
> mutation rather conveniently, preserving the basic spelling of the=20
> root while also showing the mutation. Is this unusual? Perhaps. Is it=20
> unnatural or inauthentic? No.

Of course Cyrillic script would have been better. The chief problem with
current Irish orthography is that one must memorize a large number of
contextually dependent pronunciations of vowel digraphs and trigraphs.

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