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Re: auxlang for "foreign telephone operators"

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Friday, April 6, 2001, 18:15
Pavel A. da Mek sikayal:

> >This reminds me of something I read in a book on an auxlang: > > >> The units begin with G, decades with J, and higher orders with Z. > >> The ten vowels are (in order) > >> ay, ee, eye, aw, ow. ah, eh, ih, a (as in cat) and oh. > [snip]
This language is unbelievably awful. What a terrible idea for an auxlang. Doesn't this person know anything about redundancy? I find it especially appalling that he used [dZ] and [z] for making these contrasts, since they're relatively likely to be confused.
> Well, imagine following language:
[snip] This one is even worse. I can barely distinguish that many vowels consistently, and my native lang (English) has lots of them, and I practice my phonetics a lot.
> But this is real-world auxlang used in many countries. > The "foreign telephone operators" will understand, > if you will carefully pronounce vowels with these formants:
Unfortunately, I'm not in conscious control of my formants, and I'm not in the habit of recording my own speech for analysis. Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time." --G.K. Chesterton

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