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Re: Part 2 Why my con langs SUCK!!!

From:Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>
Date:Thursday, January 22, 2004, 9:39
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> i was kind of wondering, since everyone pronounces their words > difrently when they standardise the spellings whos pronounciation > would we go with?
Well, RP of course lol. I'm joking... I'm not sure, but I think a compromise could be reached... people who speak non-rhotic dialects of english will still know how to pronounce a world if we keep on sticking rs where some people pronounce them, and if we let the vowels accurately reflect the current pronounciation of one of the dialects which has more rather than less vowels I think people would be able to figure out how to shift the sounds to match their own dialect (I believe on this side of the ocean (UK) we've got a couple more vowels (including diphthongs and triphthongs) than most of the american dialects haven't we? Don't know which dialect has the most vowel sounds).

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Roger Mills <romilly@...>