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

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.  :-)

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