Re: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton"

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@A...> wrote:

> >  |er hält| and |erhellt|, both have ...[hElt]
> >  |Sätze|   and |setze|,   both are ["zE.ts@]
>
> I don't mean to be offensive or anything, but you should be concernerned
> about your hearing if you hear no difference.
You know, I was wrong in my second post.  You *do* make
a rather arrogant impression.  You're the only speaker
of German on this list to claim such a difference, and
all the dictionaries agree with us.  If |Sätze| and
|setze| sounded different, the distinction would be
phonemic, and it would be downright sloppy not to include
it in the Duden.

My impression is that you are referring to a feature of
your local dialect, rather than standard Hochdeutsch.



> They are not. The German spelling reform is for the most part absolutely
> BRAINDEAD (sorry, any other word would be insufficient).
Huh.  I like some of it.  Das auseinander Schreiben gefällt
mir besonders.  =)))



> It was only changed
> from "aufwending" to "aufwändig" because they thought that this way, it
> would be easier to notice that it is derived from "Aufwand"
That is clearly the motivation, but they wouldn't have
changed it if the pronunciation hadn't remained constant.
For example, Schrift isn't written Schreift or Schriebt
in order to show the connection to schreiben/geschrieben.



-- Christian Thalmann