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Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...

From:<li_sasxsek@...>
Date:Friday, December 14, 2007, 5:44
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of T. A. McLeay
> Eep! Not surprisingly for a YAEPT I get two contradictory > answers to the > same question. Fortunately, I can read the implied "IMLs" and > "IMEs" :)
Which only makes the whole idea of spelling reforms much for complicated than many think it is. Consonants should be easy to deal with but the vowels in English aren't too easy to classify since the divisions aren't always the same from one dialect to the next.