From: "Yoon Ha Lee" <yl112@...>
> > Wait a minute. Now I'm confused. Have you changed
> > the pronunciation of Czevraqis? I thought {u} was
> > [M] (which I liked *so* much) and {q} was [?].
>
> <rueful look> If [M] is the "upside down m" (rendered in
> Kirschenbaum as [u-]?) I liked it too, but there was something in my
> abortive attempt at taking a phonology/phonetics intro class that
> suggested the [M] was asymmetric and it *should* be [u]. Then again,
> I stole it off Japanese...I did want to keep it. <sigh> Do you
> think the linguistics/phonology police might catch me if I changed it
> back...?
Certainly not a problem. Not every language in the world must have Spanish
vowels. Different arrangements give a lang personality. ;p
*Muke!