Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

Estel Telcontar sikyal:

>  --- Mike Ellis  wrote:
>
> > Estel Telcontar ekirais':
>  [Mike wrote]
> > >> Yad help me, I probably shouldn't reply.
> > >Been reading Guy Gavriel Kay?
> >
> > Who?
> > If that's something to do with the "Yad" reference,
> > I should explain: Yad is the god of the kind-of
> > religion that most Rheans kind-of believe.  But if
> > this Kay has been using "Yad" as the name of a god,
> > then I have a LOT of corpus to overhaul.
> >
> > M
>
> Oops, my mistake, I think.  Upon a bit more reflection, I think Kay
> actually calls the God in his books "Jad".  Please, please can I call
> upon linguistics to explain my confusion of "y" and "j"?  :-)
Easily, since the English sound spelt |y| is [j] in the phonetic alphabet.
When I'm reading foreign words from an unknown language, I often render
|j| as [j], too.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground
of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our
interpersonal relationship."

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