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Re: orthography and pronunciation

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 8:22
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:00:27 -0400, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

>But that would be a fun, tho implausible, conlang ... English is >rediscovered after many ages, and is pronounced as spelt, with c = /ts/, >j = /dZ/, q = /q/, x = /x/, y = /y/, ' = /?/, and epenthetic schwas >added as needed. Vowels pronounced as in IPA. :-)
Nope! j = /j/, 'cause English is demonstrably related to German, and they digged out a copy of Deutsche Bünenaussprache previously ;) A lot of controversy about {gh} in _thought_. The most popular view being that it's a uvular approximant. :D Basilius

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