Re: more English orthography

"Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC)" wrote:
> And h`òw dó yú base yúr claims ðat [@] is an allofone and not a
> neutralisat`,n ov [V] (or ov eny oð,r vòw,l)?  I mên, I cood ålso claim ðat
> [@] and [E] ár in complimentary distribût`,n and fonètically sìmilar
> (unrounded lax medium vòw,ls).
But [V] and [@] are virtually identical, at least in my idiolect (the
standard disclaimer, it seems).  Both are mid-central vowels, with [V]
only being very very slightly higher than [@] (and even that, I suspect,
may be an artifact of artificially producing them).  [E] and [@] are
quite distant from each other.

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