Re: German orthography: long/short vowels

J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> writes:

> In a message dated 10.10.2001 05:08:38 AM, theiling@ABSINT.COM writes:
>
> ><SNiP of longish explanation> So the German system does not seem to be
> too
> easy to >learn.
> >
>     ::laughs so hard he freaks out housemates::
Well, as a native speaker of German I know which vowels to pronounce
long and which short, but I am entirely unable to summarize the rules.

This might indicate that the system is indeed way too complex ;-)

ObConlang: This was one of the reasons why Germanech has no length
distinction in vowels (another was that most Romance languages don't,
either), and I am not sure which Germanech vowels are pronounced short
and which long.

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