Re: þe_getisbyrg_adres
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 18:30 |
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:15:11PM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> My problems with it are that it doesn't note stress...
Right. At first I took the accents to indicate stress, but who
accents "November" on the first syllable?
I don't see the value in removing the capitalization convention, either.
> _To_ for 'to' but _pur_ for 'poor' strikes me as amazingly
> and unbelievably backward (historically the both represent the same
> vowel
But in many modern dialects they no longer do so.
Also, I don't know if this was continuing your previous point or
starting a new one, but if the former - the word "to" has
no schwa in my 'lect. Except for set phrases in which it desyllabifies
to /t/, or morphs into unrecognizability (e.g. /gUn@/ for "going to"), it is
always /tu/, even when unstressed. So that's not a case of schwa
removal.
-Marcos
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