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Re: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, April 29, 2002, 2:02
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Yep, except that I guess it will do at the end like French: lower to > [E] before the glide disappears (that happened before).
If it did that, then we'd lose the phonemic distinction between /e/ and /E/ (or /ej/ and /e/, if you prefer), and would thus not be an example for your side anyways. :-) FWIW, I've been using {ei} and {ou} for /e/ and /o/, with {e} and {o} for /E/ and /O/, in my provisional work on Chúju (a descendant of Uatakassi). An alternate orthography under consideration uses {é} and {ó} for /e/ and /o/ with the bare letters still being /E/ and /O/, and uses grave instead to mark irregular stress (thus Chùju), with circumflex for irregularly stressed /e/ and /o/. And that orthography long predated this thread. :-) -- "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