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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Sunday, April 28, 2002, 22:38
En réponse à Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:

> > It's French against Ancient Greek, Irish, and common sense.
Except that I don't agree on the common sense thing. Your
> score counting technique is selective indeed. =P >
As much as your "examples".
> > To him and everyone else who isn't biased by the unfathomable > peculiarities of the French language. >
Except that it's less unfathomable than English spelling.
> Even you yourself mentioned that /ej/ in American English is beginning > to turn into /e/. So an evolution of the digraph |ei| from /ej/ to > /e/ must be plausible even to you. >
Yep, except that I guess it will do at the end like French: lower to [E] before the glide disappears (that happened before).
> > I would naturally connect it to [e], among other things, but not [E]. > That counterproves your theory. =D >
I wasn't including you. You've told it enough.
> > All in all, I would suggest we stop this discussion and agree to > disagree on this matter.
Agreed. Our discussion has been about as productive
> as discussing religion with the Taliban. =P >
True. But at least *I* wasn't the Taliban. I just pointed out a defect in your logic, and was backed up by other people. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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