Re: To Christophe (Uusisuom and Esperanto)

J Matthew Pearson wrote:


> My sense is that the /u/ - /U/ distinction is quite uncommon in the world's
> languages.
Although it certainly exists in English, even there it has a very low
functional load, and there are many words that vary dialectally.

> Of course, Daniel44 has already expressed a contempt for linguists, so I doubt if
> he'll be interested.  But others might...
More precisely, he expressed contempt for the linguists *that he had met*,
personally or Net-wise I don't know.  There are, as we all know well,
plenty of linguists who have nothing but contempt for conlanging
(on a par the astronomers' view of astrologers), and Alexis Manaster-Ramers
and Geoffrey Sampsons are few and far between.

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