Re: Not phonetic but ___???
| From: | David Zitzelsberger <davidz@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 16, 2004, 14:56 |
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From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@CCIL.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:36 PM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: Not phonetic but ___???
Indeed. I've always been a fan of merging FOOT and GOOSE; even though
they're distinct in almost all accents, the functional load is very
low and there are a huge number of idiosyncratically pronounced words.
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I don't think that would be good. What about cook and cook?
Sorry.
Cook with the foot vowel - one who prepares food professionally, or to
prepare food.
Cook with the goose vowel - one who is considered strang or exhibits
unnatural behavior like inventing languages.
Cookie verses cooky.
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