Re: CONLANG pitch accent (was Re: NATLANG: pitch accent question)

Quoting Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >>Is a language that has an anadewism in it an anadewist? If a natlang
> >>evolves such that now it contains an anadewism, is it anadewising?
> :)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Nope, it's anadewizing ...
> >
> >
> Zeds are over-rated. Zees sound like cees (especially the way
> Americans
> say them... I could understand a British-style dialect distinguishing
> Zee and Cee happily, but Americans?[1]) and should join the queue: sea
> and see are already there.
>
> [1]: You mightn't realise it, but either you use less /z/s than we do,
> our you make your /z/ differently from us, so it has the affect of
> making it look like the distinction between /z/ and /s/ isn't as
> strong
> as it could be.
I do hope you're not thinking that I'm American?

> Next you'll be telling me that /"&n@dZuaizIN/ simply doesn't cut it
> for
> the pronunciation, either.
I dare not try phonemize my mangling of English, but something like
[@n@'dju:aIzIN] is how I thought of it ...

                                                 Andreas

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