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Originally Posted by HarryT
You are absolutely right, of course, but it does have its uses. Eg, it's through transliteration that we know that a "C" is Latin was always "hard", because wherever "C" occurs in a name in Latin we always have a "kappa" in Greek, never a "sigma".
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thx harry
you reassured me that the way (german) teachers (of latin or law and a lot of others) pronounce latin IS consequently wronwrong. I wonder why - maybe because they don't want to end up with Caesar spoken as Käsar and fight their giggling inclasses down
(Käse = cheese)
'th' as long as we leave the runic remains in in icelandic you re right.
@Florence: the only difference is the base (white/black) and operation (+/-) chosen:
the fact that three colours are enough remains untouched
