Re: more English orthography

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Roger Mills wrote:

>     Thanks for the useful chart! My Japanese is hazy to
> non-existent......But there IS [tSi] as in "ichiban" and [dZi] in "Iwo
> Jima", which spring to mind.  There may well be other forms of both these
> particular words that show what the underlying consonant is-- but generally
> speaking, Classical Phonemics would have had to throw dice to decide whether
> any given [tSi] should be viewed as plain /t/ + /i/ or palatalized /t,/ +
> /i/, and so on.
[tSi] and [dZi] are the result of the /ti/ and /di/ or /zi/.  I simply
meant to say the you cannot get them from /tyi/ and /dyi/.

Marcus