Re: Woody or tinny?

In a message dated 5/21/01 1:01:53 PM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

<< You'd like Tairezazh then! /Z/, romanized as {zh} in email*, is the past
participle ending (tho' the Tairezazh past participle is more sparingly used
than the English one), and a very frequent adjectival ending. Of course, /Z/
and /dZ/ are pretty common phonemes in word roots too.

Tho' personally, I think [S] is perhaps even nicer than [Z]. I like [s] and
[z] too, not to mention [dZ], [dz], [tS] and [ts]. >>

    In my first language, [Zi] is the definite article.  It gets used
everywhere.  :)  Oddly enough, I love all the sounds you mentioned except for
[tS]...  Maybe too many negative words with it: chubby, chunky, checkers,
Chaucer, chuds...

-David