Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > I think it must have been a gradual thing, just most noticeable when it
> > hit my generation.
>
> I seem to remember reading that [y] and [wi] were in free variation in
> Korean.  Perhaps it's just that in your generation, the [y] allophone
> has simply disappeared?
<bewildered look>  What's free variation?

YHL