Re: Phonetics vs. Phonemics (was: apparently bizarre 'A's)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 25, 2006, 14:55 |
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On 2/25/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> BTW, I would level -our, -or, -er and -re, as well as -ar, all to just
> -r myself ;)
That would be the same -ar that y'all pronounce as /a:/? Seems confusing. :)
> But your scheme is doomed to failure on both sides of the Pond with all
> those 'furrin' diacritics!
Yeah, diacritics are a no-no. But what got me was the odd choice of
digraph in the basic Roman version of ʒ - cg? gj?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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