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Re: CHAT: Tiri'n script was Re: chat: a conlang of my very own :)

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Sunday, June 2, 2002, 2:51
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 10:12, Peter Clark wrote:
> Ah; all is clear. In X-SAMPA, the accented vowels are / { I @ E U /. However, > most people on the list replace /{/ with /&/, since "ampersand" starts with > the same vowel and it just looks better. Hmm--I don't know how you pronounce > "but"; another alternative vowel is / V /, which is pronounced very close to > /@/. (/@/, BTW, is called a schwa; the general rule seems to be if you do not > distinguish between /@/ and /V/, then just use /@/. Sloppy, and I expect to > be upbraided for every saying so, but there you have it. :)
Here's one person doing it now. /@/ and /V/ are no more similar than /@/ and /E/ are. It's just that some American accents merge the two. (Whereas mine makes them even more distinct: /V/ is pronounced more like /A/ or /a/ or something.) Too call them silimar on the grounds that one accent merges is the same as calling /I/ and /@/ similar (New Zealand), or /@/ and /E/ similar. If I were you, I'd use /{ I V E U/, if nothing else than for consistancy's sake: /V/ is the backed version of /E/ so it's more symmetrical. And perhaps even likely, but I don't know about that. Tristan.

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