Re: Future English
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 14:49 |
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Woo hoo!!!! We need more vowels, and wierder ones. But seriously, I'd
hate any future English to only have 5. It just wouldn't be English
anymore. Now if only we could all get /y/, and other front rounded
vowels, and maybe a few others and get over 20 vowels then we'd be well
away. :)
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> (Recent dialectal drift seems to me to be more in the direction of increasing
>vowel weirdness, if anything.)
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