Re: Blah blah blah natlangs

Muke Tever wrote:

> >===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List
> >>     My idiolect definitely has [j{] (or [j&] depending on your favored
> >> transcription system), but the actual phonetic realization might be
> >> something else, just because speakers of other dialects usually insist
> >> that my /{/ is not [{]. If this is so, I don't know what exactly it is.
> >
> >I usually have [j{]; some of my friends, however, use [jE] -- but,
> >interestingly, seem sometimes to epenthesize a glottal stop:  [jE?].
>
> Isn't that "yep" ?
No, that's the funny thing:  it's distinctly *not* "yep".  But it does
seem reasonable that [jE?] was the immediate ancestor of "yep".

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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