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Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, January 31, 2003, 12:01
J Y S Czhang scripsit:

> What is so wrong with long "a" being split into "a" and "aa"? * Or = > "s" > to "z" when pronounced /z/?? **
The whole idea of RI is to change only so much as actually *needs* changing to fix the irregularities. Changing the bulk of non-doubled s to z goes way beyond that. -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." jcowan@reutershealth.com Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.reutershealth.com Abracadabralike / schemas must die!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan