Re: /x/ and 'inter-Germanic' (was: Intergermansk)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 31, 2005, 0:46 |
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:23:00AM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Denoting a phoneme that is not pronounced as [S] as /S/ when there is a
> separate phoneme pronounced as [S] strikes me as a terrible state of affairs.
On behalf of English-speakers everywhere: welcome to our world! Just
try to find a phonemic representation of English where the symbol you
choose for some phoneme X doesn't turn out to be an allophone of phoneme
Y in someone else's 'lect . . .
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