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Re: fuzzy blue monkeys(was Re: .sig)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, November 12, 2001, 19:31
Hi!

Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> writes:
> > I'd say, High German would be: /"flaUSi:g@ "blaU@ "?afn=/ > > > > (The phonemic /i:/ would usually be rendered as short or half-long /i/ > > I'd say.). > > Now it's my turn to question your dialect.
Nono. :-) I wrote the High German phonemes, my dialect might render it a bit differently.
> There is no way the i in "flauschige" could be a phonemic /i:/.
Hmm. I definitely disagree. It *is* a phonemic /i:/, otherwise I'd write ,flauschigge'. :-) I'm very sure about this, since that imaginary word and the one in question are a minimal pair for phonemic length in High German. Let's check rhymes: `flauschigge' does not rhyme with `flauschige' (Ok, that word does not exist) `Knigge' does not rhyme with `flauschige' (Ok, the stress is different) `K