Re: Leute (was...)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 23, 2004, 10:08 |
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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,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>