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

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Monday, January 5, 2004, 22:30
Muke Tever wrote:
> 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".
> [This is where I mention my theory that English final |-y| as in 'happy', > 'authority' patterns better as short /E/ lengthened than it does as > anything you'd expect to be spelled with "y" (like 'cry'). Including the > fact that things like "-ity" come from Fr. "-it+AOk-" anyway.]
But, synchronically, there's no reason that I can see for not analyzing it as anything other than simply /i/. No other underlying forms.
> I do know people that say "ka-rohkee" [k@"roki].
Tho, it seems to me that /aw/ would be a better approximation of /ao/. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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