Re: [CONLANG] þe getisbyrg adres

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^)
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