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Re: To Christophe (Uusisuom and Esperanto)

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Monday, April 30, 2001, 19:40
In a message dated 4/30/01 10:30:51 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

<< To take me for an example, I'd pronounce the very word
'Uusisuom' wrongly half the time, with tense [u]s. >>

    More like 100% for me.  I...I can't even do it.  Unless both initial
/u/'s are supposed to be [w].  Also, wouldn't it make more sense for /y/ to
go to [w] than /u/?  But here we are talking about auxilliary languages
again!  Who started us on this...?

-David