Re: REAL newb question

At 10:10 PM 4/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Are the vowels sounds like concrete? I cant mess with em?
   How do you mean, "mess with them"? The vowel /a/ is set, and it always
represents the same thing, but how /a/ is written can be represented all
kinds of different ways. The //s indicate that the sound is the phonetic
representation, that is, how it is pronounced.

   For example, /&/ is the sound in at or cat in most english
pronunciations. But it can be spelled many ways in your lang: a, ea, ae, or
even something stranger like aCe, like english make or take, but instead of
making the a long in english (actually /ej/) is make it into /&/, so that
/k&t/ (cat) could be spelled "kate".

   I hope this answers your question, and isn't too confusing.

   Aidan

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