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Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

From:Jake X <starvingpoet@...>
Date:Friday, January 31, 2003, 20:47
> As it happens, "minde" is both Elizabethan and RI, and very sensible too, > since it shows the long "i". > > > (four thouz hu kan't reed the uhbuhv, the faalouwing haz bin
conveenyentlee
> > tranzlaytid four your reeding plezhir) > > As you can see above, RI is nowhere near as drastic as this.
That's a shame. It was kind of growing on me, writing that email. Maybe after fifty years of it I'd be ready to have my whole life spelled that way. ;-)
> -- > John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com
ccil.org/~cowan Jake