Re: p^ho'nemIts) 'englIS

"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> Trebor: I hope you realize that I wasn't making a serious suggestion,
> just describing a fun way to pronounce English.   Put another way:`
>
> <leghorn>It was a joke, I say, a joke, son.</leghorn>
:-)  I once, jokingly, thought of an conlang that came from English as
spoken by people who only saw the written form, and just guessed at the
pronunciations.  :-)

> Well, [psi.tS)I'at.rIst] is unproblematic.  For [p^hlegm] and
> [gno.mo'nIs.tIts)] we might have to allow substitution of syllabic
> nasals . . .
Or, since /@/ doesn't exist in your proposal, to allow [@] as an
epenthetic vowel under certain conditions, thus [g@.no.mo'nIs.tits)]

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