Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

Roger Mills wrote:

> Doug Dee wrote:
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>     A similar problem arises teaching US-- Anglophone in
>     general??-- students about elementary linguistics, especially
>     phonetics/phonemics/ phonology.  It takes them a while to make the
>     disconnect from spelling, and learn that "long e" as in meet is [i],
>     "long i" as in bite is actually a diphthong [aI] and so on.

I'm sure it's universal in English - like the Great Vowel Shift which was
the source of the confusion. Strangely, I am afflicted by this kind of
blindness when learning Russian, and only then. Something about the vowels
"i" and "e" regularly confuses me, and I often find  I'm pronouncing /e/ as
/i:/. This is entirely a fault of my Cyrillic reading habit, and I'm not
sure whence it came.

s.

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