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Re: [CONLANG] þe getisbyrg adres

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 20:31
Steg rót:

> I was just responding to someone's attempted association of BP's > con/alt-orthography with American President George W. 'Dubya' Bush, and > therefore Lower (or Middle?) Leftpondian dialects. > > Although i guess the association is implicit from the beginning anyway, > with the choice of sample texts. Or maybe we still pronounced /ju/ > after alveolars in Lincoln's time?
Actually the con/alt-orthography is intended to be as far as possible supralectal. It easy for an American to learn as a rule that _ý_ is read as //u// after an alveolar, but spelling e.g. _nu_ should also be possible -- unless you aim at an international audience. Hence also the preserved distinction between the THOUGHT and LOT vowels, and the merging of FATHER with TRAP rather than LOT! :) /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)

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