Re: Breehah horp

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Dave Rutan wrote:
>
>> Isaac Penzev wrote:
>>
>>> You misunderstood me. To use *Latin* glyphs is ok, many people do
>>> this. I
>>> wondered why the glyphs were assigned English *phonetic values*?!
>>> That is,
>>> why _AI_ means [ei], _UI_ [ju:], _U_ [V] etc.?
>>
>> It's the only way I know to do it.  I'm a native English speaker and
>> an Esperantist. Breehah was created about 25 years ago when I was in
>> school.  I dusted it off last month and decided to develop it a bit.
>>
>> I'd be willing to learn a better way to do things.
>
> You can do it however you want to do it. One thing to remember is that
> since English dialects differ so much, it can be kind of ambiguous or
> confusing to give pronunciations based on English words. E.g. you say
> <ui> is like in <suit>, which for me is /u/, an 'oo' without a 'y' in
> front -- whereas for some people (apparently including Isaac), it is
> /ju/, or a 'yoo' sound.
Truly I tell you.  I would easily forgive anyone mispronouncing breehah
in my presence and I'm sure the breehah would simply call it hi'horjaik
kahpuid 'that human dialect.' ;-)

Dave
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