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

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