Re: Advanced English to become official!

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:43:30 -0800, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:

>I was just looking over your page.  A couple questions:
>
>-How would AE differentiate between the [dZ] in a word like
>"language" and the "dg" in a made-up word like "midguard"?
You could use a hyphen (mid-guard) or an apostrophe (mid'guard).

>-Same goes for something like "missionary" and "vishnu",
>the first with a reduced vowel between the [S] and [n], and
>the latter without?
Why would you want to write vowels which are not pronounced in the first
place? Ideally, you don't, so I left them out as much as possible.

>-What is the difference between the onset of "gem" and the
>onset of "joy"?
Phonetically none, but I chose dg and dj to stay closer to the original
spelling. dj would only be used for words originally spelled with j,
otherwise dg is used.

>-Curious: Why did you use "ae" for schwa, rather than "a",
>when you use "a" for carrot [V]?
I chose this to distinct between normal a and schwa. The carrot [V] is  just
a short a, so I wrote it as such.

>-According to your chart, you use "a" for [V] and [A]/[Q].
>Does this mean "cot" and "cut" would be spelled the same?
Since [Q] is closer to a than to o, I chose to write it with a.
Even if I had chosen "o", there would be some other words with then
identical spelling.

>-Not familiar with British pronunciation.  Does the "i" in
>"technique" rhyme with the "i" in "bit" or the "ee" in "beet"?
It's a French word. The i is long, as in beet.

>-Curious: Why no consonant for the (inter)dental fricatives?
>There are lots of minimal pairs: dare/there/their; die/thy; tie/thigh;
>tin/thin, etc.
You'll have to take into consideration the vast amount of non-native
speakers, which now outnumber the native speakers. Most of them don't have a
th, so I thought it better to axe it.

>-Also, "s" is *always* voiced before a vowel?  So "sue" and "zoo"
>are pronounced the same: [zu]?
Basically yes. A distinction would be unneccessary here.
Everyone should be able to understand "Sue goes to the zoo" regardless is
the s is voiced or not.

>-Oh, interesting.  Do you pronounce "v" and "w" the same?
Yes. The difference is too small to warrant separate letters, so get rid of
a superfluent letter :D

>Neat stuff!
Thanks :)

--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
Shinsei: http://www.choton.org/shinsei/
Intergermansk: http://www.choton.org/ig/
Chatiga: http://www.choton.org/chatiga/
Choton: http://www.choton.org
Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/
Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/
Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/