Re: English spelling reform

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> A Tairezan might've tried to indicate it as "en ártifishel lengidzh iz e
> lengidzh dhet ez bin". "ártifishel" breaks a pretty strong ban on long
> vowel
> plus consonant cluster, whereas "lengidzh" would have to be
> interpreted as a
> word "gidzh" with a fairly loosely asociated prefix "len-" (or
> alternatively, leng-idzh, leng-gidzh or lenk-gidzh) to keep stress on the
> second syllable.
Umm... since when do you find stress on the second syllable in
/"l&NgwIdZ/? I'd always thought the last syllable was fully unstressed,
retaining the [I] value only because it was before a /k/, /g/, /S/, /tS/
(often [dZ]; samwidge or samwitch) or /dZ/.

Tristan