Re: Romanization of Reduced Vowels

Sinulat ni Matt Pearson (na Mat Pilson siespe ia):

>Kristian Jensen skrev (sinulat):
>
>>All right... I think I'm beginning to understand this now.
>>Thanks to you. I believe that all these vowel sounds are all
>>conditioned variants of /@/. So you'd suggest using one symbol.
>>But the question is, what symbol? It seems really contrived to
>>me to write for instance a word that sounds like [mw@j] and
>>[mj@n] as "maway" and "mayan" respectively.
>
>What's contrived about it?  Looks good to me.  Or how about
>"mewey" and "meyen"?
>
Actually, "mewey" and "meyen" looks a lot better. Not for Khmer, but
for Boreanesian - my reform of Lumanesian. Thanks. All of a sudden,
this seems quite natural.

Regards,
-Kristian- 8-)