Re: CHAT: Dwarfs/dwarves (was Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin)
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 13:37 |
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Quoting Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Anton Sherwood wrote:
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> > "Y.Penzev" wrote:
> > > And surely NO GVS !!! I HATE the Great Vowel Shift !!!
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> > I'm not wild about it myself.
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> 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!)
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