Re: Why my conlangs SUCK!!!

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, David Barrow wrote:

> Tristan McLeay wrote:
>
> >
> >Yeah. Most of our pure vowels are shifted up compared to their RP values.
> >'aw'/'or', f'rinstance, is /o:/, or 'er' /2:/(ish, not quite that front)
> >(one notable exception is that /el/ has become /&l/, so that 'shell' and
> >'shall' are homophones).  American /E/ (which I think is lower than RP)
> >sounds very close to my /&/. Diphthongs often move in the opposite
> >direction (ei > &i), the notable exception being oy, which is more like
> >/oi/ (inline with /O:/ generally becoming /o:/).
>
> short vowels as well?
>
> get = /get/ not /gEt/?
Yep, the distinction is purely length.

> if  (ei > &i)  are day and die and similar words homophones or has /&i/
> changed position
die is pronounced /dAi/.

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Tristan