Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 9, 1999, 0:38 |
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Roland Hoensch wrote:
>
> I do see Your point... and I am not perfectly happy with the vowel system
> yet.
> But as far as obscuring words goes, most people cannot differentiate too
> many
> vowels (especcially being taught at school that there are only five of them)
I don't agree with that. As far as I can tell, most people very much
distinguish English's many vowels. If you're claiming a phonetic
spelling, you should be phonetic (or rather phonemic) and distinguish
all vowels.
> Difficult when English has three lengths.
>
> And it bat and bet I think the difference is also in the length. Am I
> wrong?
I'm not an expert on British dialects, but I don't think that British
dialects differ from American in not having phonemic length. What is
traditionally called length (as in "rat" vs. "rate") USED TO be truly
length, but they are now the same length, and are a different vowel.
--
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