Re: your mail

* dirk elzinga (dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu) [000222 20:41]:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> > If you're hunting for introductory books, I'd recommend those by Francis
> > Katamba or Iggy Roca (Peter Ladefoged for the phonetic side of things,
> > of course). Katamba's is more general, Roca's describe the various
> > contemporary and competing theories better, IMHO.
>
> A faculty member here has just reviewed Roca's introductory book
> and was very critical of it. I read a draft of his review (and
> Roca's comments on it) as well as sections of the text itself.
> He makes some very idiosyncratic decisions about the phonology
> of English, [..]
Bah,`idiosyncratic decisions about the phonology of English' sounds
very good to my foreigner's ears :)

"Are you tellin' me there's a sistim to dat eeeenglish moanin'?" :)

obConlang: The orthograpy of my previous lang was somewhat based on
English orthograpy, 'ee' for /i/ etc.


t.