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

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/.
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