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

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, June 11, 2006, 19:42
Mark J. Reed skrev:
> 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.
_Drømme_ is 'dream' the verb, and _drøm_ is 'dream' the noun (or the imperative). Swedish has _drömma_ and _dröm_ correspondingly. The present, past etc. add some endings too.
> 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/.
Danish (but not Norwegian) actually has two phonemes /2/ and /9/, but both are written _ø_ in the orthography. Some linguists, beginning with Rasmus Rask some 200 years ago have tried to introduce an orthographic distinction between _ø_ and _ö_, but it hasn't catched on; peobably because _ö_ is seen as a Swedish and German letter -- at least the main argument against replacing Danish _aa_ /O(:)/ with _å_ was/is that the latter is a Swedish letter. (Yes I'm back after ten days of trouble with changing DNS servers... Replies to sundry backmail, on and off list, to follow tomorrow... :-) -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se "Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it means "no"! (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)