Re: /E~/ (was: Re: Kyrgyz was Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang))

Christophe wrote:
> Possible. French is easy to describe with the IPA, since it has mostly
cardinal
> vowels,
That should not surprise us, since IIRC the mostly European phoneticians who
devised IPA used French vowels as models for the Cardinal Vowels.

Andreas wrote:
> > If my explanation above seems wrong, please tell me, and
> > I won't utter another word of French for the rest of my life.
>
That, sorry to say, has been my approach to the problem.
¡Viva el español!  Evviva l'italiano! (On my long ago trip through France, I
had a minor fender-bender in Avignon-- fortunately the gendarme claimed to
speak Italian, so we settled the matter in that language. In Paris, I
luckily found a bar where Latin American students hung out.)