Re: B. Cthia and Nom Rob Zook Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:36:46 -0500 At 02:44 PM 4/21/97 -0500, you wrote: >> >>Hmm..,my conception of chaos, or < > includes all our conceptions >>of it as well. So saying Nom includes cthia and chaos, seems >>rather redundent. > >The sets can't be mapped properly. Everything that participates in >cthia also participates in chaos. If I know something you don't, it's >my cthia and your chaos. And always of nom. It's a shifty, overlapping >mess, is what it is. And all words distort. I just meant that nom >includes the real and the unreal, while cthia and chaos are one and the >other, respectively. As for conceptions, I'm classifying those as real, >no matter how vague, which puts them in cthia. Our conceptions of chaos >are actually part of cthia, which is why the moment you say something >about chaos you've missed. "The Dao that can be spoken of is not the >Dao." Ahh, I see different names but same catagories. I use these: Yours Mine -------- --------- Nom Chaos Cthia Kia Chaos Aethyr Same idea, different names. >>>Note: Duane does not use an apostraphe to spell "cthia," so I've >>>stopped doing so. It is also likely that a ZC transcription would be >>>"kthia" or "qthia." >> >>If you assume the letters in cthia use the ZC transcription >>method then one would pronouce it ts't'hia. I think. > >Right. That's why I suggested a ZC transcription of "kthia" because for >some reason I think Duane meant a /k/ sound rather than a /ts/. Oh, I misunderstood what you meant. >>But it >>would definitely sound like ts't'hia, or ts'thia if transcribed >>using the ZC method. > >Two apostrophes? Perhaps we should consider using something else to >indicate glottal stops, if we're going to use apostrophes to make >consonant clusters look more pronouncable. Why, I like them >;-| They look cool man, and exotic and just generally nifty neeto. Seriously, I always found the apostraphies very appealing as a symbol for glottal stops since they show a very obvious looking break in the word. Rob