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Re: Leute (was...)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Friday, July 23, 2004, 10:08
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:35:49 -0400, J. 'Mach' Wust
<j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
> I prefer the more traditional Swiss German orthography as proposed by > Werner Marti to the more phonemic approach of Eugen Dieth, so I write /y, > Y, 9/ as <ü, ü, ö>, and eventually mark the first with a dot below (only > for linguistic purposes). The Dieth orthography, which is more common for > Züritüütsch than Marti, suggests <ü, ö, ö> for /y, 2, 9/ and eventually > marks the latter with an additional grave accent above. I think there's > no 'codification' of the more traditional orthography for Züritüütsch.
Careful of the "false friend" - I think you mean German "eventuell" (en: possibly) rather than "eventually" (de: schließlich, allmählich) here. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>