Re: terminal dialect?

Josh Brandt-Young wrote:
> o = [O] [O:]
> o' = [OU]
Interesting, so there's no [o]?  I like that diphthong [OU]

> o" = [oe] (Open mid front rounded vowel)
Depends.  In SAMPA, it's [9] (I don't know why, it just is)

> u = [Y] [u:]
> u' = [u:]
Interesting, so u' and u are, when "long", are homophonous?  I wonder
why the short form is [Y] and not [y]?  Interesting.

> au = [oeI] (See above--what is this in ASCII?)
Odd!  It's not [9Y]?  I wonder why [au] (I'm assuming that that's the
original form) became [9I]?  I can understand [a] --> [9], if it was
[a], frontal.  I could see [au] --> [9u] --> [9y] (raising and fronting
of [a], and fronting of [u]), but the unrounding of [y] is just bizarre,
especially since the [9] wasn't likewise unrounded to [E].

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