Re: Deseret Alphabet [was: Re: Regularized Inglish]
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 1999, 12:12 |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, R. Nierse wrote:
> If alfabets are difficult stuff and Dutch had a syllabary, what should I do
> with words like "herfstsfeer" and "angstzweet". Lot of consonantclusters.
Well, you don't pronounce all of them; I say ['hERfsfer] and
['aNsswet] (with a longish "s"). It took a *lot* of convincing to get
our choirmistress to realize that the daunting-looking consonant
cluster in "bruiloftszaal" is nothing more than [fs].
Irina
Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English)
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