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Re: CHAT: Dwarfs/dwarves (was Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin)

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Sunday, December 16, 2001, 16:23
From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Anton Sherwood wrote: >> >> > "Y.Penzev" wrote: >> > > And surely NO GVS !!! I HATE the Great Vowel Shift !!! >> > >> > I'm not wild about it myself. >> >> Horrible people. Where would English be without it? > >Presumably, with a less screwed up vowel orthography. >(Although Nik's point is good too: you wouldn't have the >fun of 'divine' [dIvaI(n] ~ 'divinity' [dIvInir=i] without >it!)
Well, we could have had the GVS late enough to be incorporated into the orthography.... like the Spanish o/ue, e/ie shifts. We probably wouldn't think much of it since we'd be used to it, and then we'd be questioning our speech and not our writing when we did "divijn" <> "divinity" *Muke!

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