Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mangiat wrote:

(could everybody *please* delete garbage at the beginning of subject
lines? One "Re:" is quite enough!)

> Irina wrote:
> > It's [Ej], but lately young people, probably following the fashion of
> > TV presenters who are mostly from the west of the country, have taken
> > to saying something closer to [Aj].
> Is this happening to the diphthong 'ei' as well?
Yes. It's the sound changing, regardless of spelling.

> If I'm not mistaken, they
> should sound the same (generating interesting couplets as rijst/reist =
> rice/he goes which are different only in the written form).
Also _rijst_ "rises", which led me to think, as a child, that the song
starting "Boven Gent rijst" ("Above Gent rises...", referring to a
tower, I think) had something to do with rice.

> This would mean
> that Dutch is going to sound quite German... interesting, even if I
> personally prefer the sound of Dutch to that of German.
So do I...

   Irina

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