you are off track here on x-sound (last passage) i do not deserve to be addressed rabin-ka! stop! thanks ...
Saurav Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
rabin-ka:
Rabin Deka said on AssamNet:
+ Any English word starting with /x/ (or /x/ in the upper
+ first half of the word), phoneme /z/ as zebra is mapped;
+ while /x/ appearing in the later half of the word uses /ksh/
+ phoneme. English speakers naturally (withut training) will
+ use this rule in reading any foregin word with /x/ in it.
+
an english speaker reading english in the roman script is at liberty
to make his own rules. he cannot use these very rules for reading
french, for instance. neither german. nor tens/hundreds of other
languages that use roman or embellished roman scripts. once i
asked for pho in a vietnamese restaurant, and the waiter did not
understand what i wanted. then he gently corrected me. he was
right and i was wrong. vietnamese is his language.
there is no single and correct use of the roman s! cript. people
using it have been adapting it to their own needs.
+ Rakxi, Ra/ksh/i, for example reading in English would make
+ a Kamrupi speaker mad depending on contex -- /x/ messessup
+ Kamrupi with /ksh/.
+
a kamrupi reader should be able to make out when general assamese
is being written. when an assamese writer wants to use the kamrupi
sound, he should naturally use the correct phonetic rule to produce
the kamrupi sound. not just in roman, but in the assamese script
as well. and this is generally done. a kamrupi reader, likewise,
should read an "x" and play the /x/ sound in his mind.
+ As I said, Kamrupi is a dieing language and if Assam Government
+ makes a rule to use /x/ in Romanized Assamese for the three
+ phoneme-specific alphabets perhaps none from Kamrupi speakers
+ will be able to stop.
+
+ Kamrupi speakers do not get confused with Rashi or Raashi they
+ read with correct phoneme.! But listening Raxi as Ra/ksh/i, , in
+ a sentence, depending on contex a Kamrupi man will be mad.
as i said earlier, if it is written raxi, the writer probably
wanted to use the /x/ sound. if you prefer to say rashi, and write
the kamrupi dialect, you should rightfully not use "x". using "x" when
you wanted to use the "sh" sound is clearly not correct.
saurav
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