Re: Part 2 Why my con langs SUCK!!!
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 23, 2004, 18:07 |
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:36:08PM -0500, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> I think you are right, but there are difficulties. What about ARSE, for
> example? The universal North American pronunciation is [&:s]; does this have
> underlying /r/ or not? Surely you don't want to claim that BASS, the fish,
> is underlyingly /bars/ or /b&rs/ (OE "baers").
I thought BrE "arse" and AmE "ass" were distinct, synonymous words.
> Final /r/ mostly patterns like pre-consonantal /r/, but what are we to
> do with "intrusive r" in non-rhotic dialects, where unhistorical r's
> appear in external sandhi by analogy to the historically lost ones?
"sandhi"? Is that another Lojban term? (reaches for Red Book . . .)
-Mark
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