Re: Futurese

Mathias wrote:
>Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:
> >>>>
>The only form of communication common to all people is a punch in the face,
>but neither hispanophones nor zipangophones are very profilic on this list,
>neither do they amount to an porportion of the world's population as do
>sinophones, and other collapses of labials are irrelevant to the
>sensibility
>of keeping /b/ and /v/ apart.
><<<
>i know a least one other form of communication common to all
>people--especially
>common to my current neighbours next door.
>[now ready for IALF (IAL flaming):]
>i'm shocked that you despise south america and japan so overtly and want to
>impose a chinese phonology to the whole world and i don't understand why
>keeping
><p> (p/b/f ) and <w> (w/v/B) apart is less sensible than /b/ vs. /v/ but i
>propose to settle all this with the following arrangement: your IAL gets
>all the
>green countries on the Risk board and mine gets all the blue ones. no,
>wait, i
>get the brown and yellow too--i can't remember the Risk board anymore. let
>me
>check and post again. BTW: no throwing dice--hammering fingers with an
>esperanto
>dictionary only. ready?
>
I can't tell if you're just joking, or am genuinely unable to see my point,
but for the final time; whether an IAL decides to keep other nasal contrasts
phonemic has no direct relevance to the question whether it ought to keep
the [v]~[b] contrast phonemic.

And if claiming that there are more speakers if Chinese than of Japanese and
Spanish combined is despising Japan and South America, then I'll happily
despise every country outside China.

                                                 Andreas

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