Re: USAGE: Shaw alphabet (was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies)

A quick online lookup indicates that drømme is both the Danish and
Norwegian word for "dream".  But a search on the word yields more
Danish results than Norwegian ones, and Norwegian has an alternate
word drøm (not sure if thats Nynorsk vs Bokmal or regional variation
or what), so I'm leaning toward Danish.

However, the letter <ø> is, in both languags, pronounced as IPA /ø/,
that is, /2/ in both CXS and X-SAMPA, not as IPA /œ/ = X-SAMPA /&/ =
CXS /9/.

On 6/11/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> From: "caeruleancentaur" <caeruleancentaur@...>
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:05 PM
>
> > That is some help, thanks.  The X-SAMPA chart that I have
> > gives the Swedish word "drømme" as the example for /&/.
> > That was no help to me at all.
>
> Are you sure that that's not Danish or Norwegian? Swedish
> does not use ø, which is what makes it easily recognizable
> to folks like me who don't speak a single of those three
> languages and thus can't see from the words which language
> it is. However, IIRC (Standard) Swedish <ö> is /9/, but
> don't nail me down on that.
>
> Carsten
>
> --
> "Miranayam kepauarà naranoaris." (Kalvin nay Hobbes)
> Siruena, Sintung 11, 2315 ya 26:18:28 pd
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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