From: Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
> Michael Poxon wrote:
> > I just don't like. /f/ for instance, especially when word-final.
> That's also a sound I tend to avoid; I almost eliminated /f/ from Minza
> entirely, making [P] an allophone of /x/ (like /h/ in Japanese), but I'd
> become accustomed to certain words having /f/, and I noticed the word
> for "soup" had become homophonous with "louse", so I went back to /f/
> being a distinct phoneme (now with [f] and [P] as allophones).
Tough room.
One G