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Re: OT: Junk/Dim S(ui)m

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, September 13, 2003, 17:09
Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> What's 'echt'?
Pukka, authentic, from German. He meant to say "not very echt". The "dim sum"/"dim sim" romanization conflict represents the fact that the second vowel is [@] (though phonemically /a/), and English has no one way of spelling it. In America, the "u" of "but" is [V], and [V] and [@] have no phonemic contrast, so "sum" as in what you get from adding two numbers well represents the original. -- I don't know half of you half as well John Cowan as I should like, and I like less than half jcowan@reutershealth.com of you half as well as you deserve. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Bilbo http://www.reutershealth.com