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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 7943636" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Thanks for your interest Marandahir.The English letter &quot;c&quot; (when in front of an &quot;i&quot; or &quot;e&quot;) came from Old French &quot;c&quot;, which was pronounced /ts/. See for example, the Old French word cité (source of English &quot;city&quot;). It was pronounced /tsité/:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cité#Old_French[/URL]Greek did have letter C - there was a scribal variant of the letter sigma called &quot;lunate sigma&quot; (moon-shaped sigma) which looked exactly like Roman &quot;C.&quot; See:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet#cite_note-nicholas_finalsigma-31[/URL]But I went with the letter &quot;sampi&quot; instead of &quot;lunate sigma&quot;, because the archaic letter sampi looks more exotically Greek.Because that's a slippery slope. You're going back into phonemic pronunciation, rather than a spelling cipher.Making it one-to-one is most straightforward. Because you could similarly argue about all the other letters. If you really look into it, nearly all of the letters in my Fantasy Greek Alphabet similarly serve multiple purposes, or no purpose. For example, the next suggestion along those lines would be to say: &quot;They use Γ only for 'Hard G', but use ΔZ̈ for the &quot;Soft G&quot; sound as in &quot;gel&quot;.&quot;...But then, what happens to the &quot;J&quot; letter?And then, you could say: &quot;Well, English has two different &quot;th&quot; sounds: voiceless &quot;th&quot; as in &quot;thin&quot; and voiced &quot;th&quot; as in &quot;then&quot; -- so why not distinguish these in your Fantasy Greek Alphabet?&quot;And why not distinguish the English sounds &quot;sh&quot;, &quot;zh&quot;, and &quot;soft ch&quot; (vs. &quot;hard ch&quot; as in choir), by giving them their own Fantasy Greek letters. etc etcWhich I could and did do originally; but like I said, then it becomes a phonemic script rather than a simple, easy-to-use &quot;game cipher.&quot; Distinguishing between &quot;hard C&quot; and &quot;soft C&quot; is simply the first step down that slippery slope. And what the Greek letter &quot;sampi&quot; (or &quot;tsampi&quot;) represented (namely, the sound /ts/), is a very close to the phonetic orgin of the English letter &quot;c&quot;, via the Old French letter &quot;c&quot; (pronounced /ts/). So, that's why. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dungeonosophy, post: 7943636, member: 6688049"] Thanks for your interest Marandahir. The English letter "c" (when in front of an "i" or "e") came from Old French "c", which was pronounced /ts/. See for example, the Old French word [B]cité[/B] (source of English "city"). It was pronounced /tsité/: [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cité#Old_French[/URL] Greek did have letter C - there was a scribal variant of the letter sigma called "lunate sigma" (moon-shaped sigma) which looked exactly like Roman "C." See: [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet#cite_note-nicholas_finalsigma-31[/URL] But I went with the letter "sampi" instead of "lunate sigma", because the archaic letter sampi looks more exotically Greek. Because that's a slippery slope. You're going back into phonemic pronunciation, rather than a spelling cipher. Making it one-to-one is most straightforward. Because you could similarly argue about all the other letters. If you really look into it, nearly all of the letters in my Fantasy Greek Alphabet similarly serve multiple purposes, or no purpose. For example, the next suggestion along those lines would be to say: "They use Γ only for 'Hard G', but use ΔZ̈ for the "Soft G" sound as in "gel"." ...But then, what happens to the "J" letter? And then, you could say: "Well, English has two different "th" sounds: voiceless "th" as in "thin" and voiced "th" as in "then" -- so why not distinguish these in your Fantasy Greek Alphabet?" And why not distinguish the English sounds "sh", "zh", and "soft ch" (vs. "hard ch" as in choir), by giving them their own Fantasy Greek letters. etc etc Which I could and did do originally; but like I said, then it becomes a phonemic script rather than a simple, easy-to-use "game cipher." Distinguishing between "hard C" and "soft C" is simply the first step down that slippery slope. And what the Greek letter "sampi" (or "tsampi") represented (namely, the sound /ts/), is a very close to the phonetic orgin of the English letter "c", via the Old French letter "c" (pronounced /ts/). So, that's why. :) [/QUOTE]

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