Re: Deseret Alphabet [was: Re: Regularized Inglish]
From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
Date: | Thursday, September 30, 1999, 23:40 |
Nik Taylor wrote:
> "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.
>
> Yuck! And I thought English was bad with words like "strengths"
> (/striNkTs/) and "walked" (/wAlkt/ - tho I still say that's immoral
> having two stops in a row in SF position :-) )
"sixths" /sIksTs/ is the best example of that, IMO. (If I have a /k/
in "strength", it's only very lightly pronounced, if at all).
And you don't seriously have an /l/ in "walk", do you? :)