Re: USAGE: front vowel tensing [was: English notation]
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 23:07 |
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 13:00 2001-06-29 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> >Even in US phonemics, there were competing ways of representing the offglide
> >or neutralization of vowels before /r/-- /fihr/ 'fear' springs to mind. (If
> >your dialect was truly r-less, you could simply write /fih/, contrasting
> >with /fij/ 'fee'
>
> I take it you like this notation. So do I -- it meyks fohr a naysehr
> rowman/fownemik speling riyfohrm than thowz horid "Ve" daygrafz ov "Nue
> Speling" --, but I thought I was the only one.
>
Has anyone ever thought, it might be simpler to scrap the Latin-based
English script and used instead Cyrillic or Glagolitic or Devanagari or
whatever?
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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