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Re: New Try from a New Guy

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Sunday, December 15, 2002, 13:26
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Johansson <and_yo@H...> wrote:
 > Christian Thalmann wrote:
 > >If you're just going for a general unarticulated central sound,
 > >I'd suggest to use /@/ to represent it.  [@\], [3], [3\], [6]
 > >etc are basically just "flavored" versions of the schwa [@].
 > >I don't think any language distinguishes between those
 > >phonemically (although Portuguese has two separate unstressed
 > >central sounds: [1] and [6]).
 >
 > What about German _Fische_ [fIS@] vs _Fischer_ [fIS6]?

True.  Funny how you can stumble over your own doorstep if
you search the horizon.  ;-)

Hey, I should coin that as a saying in Jovian or Obrenje...


|Con man pficta hoerdzondun, poesse tzolber suo limi pordi.|
[kAm mam "pfiCt@ har"dzAnd@n pas "tsAlb@r su "li:mi "bArdi]
when  MAN  look_at:3s  horizon:ACCs  can:3s  stumble:INF
POS:3s:n:OBLs  threshold:OBLs door:GENs

|Blize deweq u kelraze, nok tse nim urefwel furoldac.|
[bli:Z d@"wEN M kEl"ra:Z nOk tS# nim Mr@"fwEl fMrOl"dax]
when_REL  search:LIQ:0  PRE  horizon  happen:3e  TSE
POS:RFL  doorstep  stumble:0



-- Christian Thalmann