Re: French reform (Re: C.Thalmann, & #1)

You're welcome :) I really did enjoy it. And I
realized a mistake I made in standard French
orthography, that perhaps rivals or beats the mistakes
in your reform orthography. I wrote: écrité, I guess I
got a little slap happy with my e-accent aigu. It's of
course écrit, oops.


--- # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> Elliott Lash wrote:
>
> > > >Il y est assis -> Il i èt asiz
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't think I'd even say that sentence I'd
> > > probably say "Il est assis là"
> > >
> > > ietasilâ /jetasilA/
> >
> >Both sound good to me (but it's my second
> language...I
> >studied it for 7 years):
> >
> >   1)   iliètasi
> >   2)   ilètasilâ
> >
>
> Yes, Both are good I simply said that /iljEtasi/
> sounds unnatural in my
> dialect but I'd understand like everybody else'd do
>
> > > >Il est mangé -> Il èt mãjé
> > > >
> > >
> > > jemãje /jema~Ze/
> >
> >I'd say: ilèmãje
> >  (I think that you meant to write: iemãje)
> >
>
> Yes, sorry, when X-Sampa's phonetic becomes as
> natural to write as my normal
> writing, I don't always think of "i" when it will
> sound /j/
>
> > > >Parlez français -> Parléz frãsèz
> > > >
> > >
> > > parle frãsè /parle fRa~sE/
> >
> >I'd say what you say, basically, although I'd have
> /R/
> >in /parle/ too.
> >
>
> Yes.. Let's say it's the opposite of my last
> mistake: my method overtook
> X-Sampa here..
>
> [...]
>
> > > lë paraplyi ie vèr /l@ paRaplHi je vER/
> >
> >Hm, same except I'd probably have /E/ for your /ie/
> >Also, if I were doing this I might stick the
> article
> >on as a prefix, like in Creol. So it'd be:
> lëparaplyi
> >
>
> Yes I should, to keep it really polysynthetic
>
> > > >Monsieur Staline est-il Russe? -> Mœsiœ
> Staline
> > > èt il Rùse?
> >
> > > mösiö Stalin ie-ty rus? /m2sj2 stalin je ty Rys/
> >
> >Hm, same except for è-ti /Eti/ for your ie-ty.
> Also,
> >how come you write /y/ both _y_ and _u_ in this
> >example. I'd think it would be _y_ in both cases.
> >
>
> Sure, What a varition in mistakes I made! Now
> neither my method nor X-Sampa
> overtook but now it's my natural writing that passed
> in front..
>
> [...]
> >  ~ Elliott.
>
> Thanks for these observations
>
> - Max
>

		
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