Re: fortis vs lenis (was Re: German style orthography)

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:20:13 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
>
> >FORTIS - consonant sound made with a relatively strong degree of muscular
> >effort and breath force.
> >LENIS - consonant sound made with relatively weak degree of muscular
> >effort and breath force.
>
> That's one use of the two terms. For what I know, phoneticians haven't been
> able to verify this distinction, so we must consider it hypothetical.
Even if you doesn't believe in its phonemicity, surely you must be able to feel
different levels of muscular tension in your speech organs as well different
amounts of breath force?

                                                  Andreas