Re: OT: YAEPT: karaoke (was: Re: new Klingon spelling)

People wrote, I read, I replied:

> > Same for the final "e" sound.  The only final short vowels allowed in
> > [standard American] English are schwa and "short o" (the one in "saw"),
so
> > the "e" gets read as long (same in "sake").
>
> Except in compounds like the days of the week, and a very small number
> of recent borrowings like "anime".
Though, whenever you see things like "anime" in print, the final "e" has an
accent over it to denote that it should be pronounced.

> Tho, it seems to me that /aw/ would be a better approximation of /ao/.
What do you say when you get hit with a hammer? ("OW!")

Okay, that's the best approximation. :P

-Keith