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.
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