Re: YAEPT: Enuf is Enuf: Some Peepl Thru with Dificult Spelingz

On 7/11/06, Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:
> Also,
> you wrote "to some" as "tu sum", which is clearly not phonemic
> spelling...
Perhaps it depends on which sounds you consider as allophones of which
phonemes :)

But it's not a one-to-one symbol-to-sound correspondance, that's true;
however, context helps (e.g. at the end of a work, |u| is /u/ while in
a closed syllable, |u| is /V/ (or stressed /@/ or whatever your
phonemic analysis makes of it)). I'm not sure what |u| is in a
non-word-final open syllable, though -- having the rule be "at the end
of the word" vs "between two consonant letters" makes the rule easier
while "in open syllable" vs "in closed syllable" requires a bit more
work in syllabification.

However, the spelling "luking" for "looking" doesn't fit since here I,
at least, have not /u/ nor /V/ but /U/. (Unless you take the step of
unifying /u/ and /U/, as argued e.g. in 7.1 of
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/accents_spellingreform.htm . But
then I'm not sure what cue signifies that |u| = /u or U/ rather than
/V/.)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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