Re: Russian orthography (was: A perfect day ...)

At 18:28 02/02/00 -0500, you wrote:
>distinguish palatalisation when followed by /j/.  That reminds me of the
>elusive difference between French "Louis" and "lui"...
>
Strange, I had a discussion about it with my boyfriend just a few days ago.
In his small booklet to use French in a few situations, they explained to
pronounce the 'ui' as Dutch 'wie' and I didn't agree. But by comparing our
pronunciations, we discovered that his 'w' was more like the semi-vowel of
French in 'lui' than like the English 'w'. Does anyone know the exact
phonological definition of this sound?

Of course, he was also unable to make any difference between 'Louis' and
'lui', whereas I find this difference as distinct as the difference between
the semi-vowels /w/ and /j/.

                                                        Christophe Grandsire
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