Re: Part 2 Why my con langs SUCK!!!
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 23, 2004, 13:32 |
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:59:43PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> The same with /U/ vs /V/ - which, though widespread, is not
> represented in written English.
It most certainly is. /pUt/ and /pVt/ are spelled differently, as are
/lUk/ and /lVk/, /bUk/ and /bVk/ . . . I can't think of any /U/ vs /V/
minimal pairs in English which are homographs.
> Perhaps we should use cool dutch-style double letters. 'graas'(grass)
> and 'puut'(put), for instance.
Is <grass> [grA:s] in your dialect, then, or are you proposing <aa> for
[&]? Doubled vowels for a shorter sound is a bit odd.
-Mark
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