Re: Woody or tinny?

David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 5/20/01 11:06:58 PM, adchaney@MAC.COM writes:
>
><< Egads -- that is bad.  As if the /Z/ weren't bad enough... >>
>
>     Just so as to say something (haven't in awhile), [Z] is my favorite
>sound, period.  No other sound I've ever heard can compare to [Z].  I lull
>myself to sleep with [Z].  If there's a better sound, it doesn't come out
>of
>a human mouth, says I.
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].

                                                 Andreas

* In my personal notes on Tairezazh, and other conlangs for that matter, I
normally use either the IPA "esh" and "ezh" characters, or s-hac^ek and
z-hac^ek for /S/ and /Z/.
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