USAGE: Louis? C'est lui (was Re: Russian orthography (was: Aperfect day ...))

Don Blaheta wrote:
> One of the most striking French-isms that *no* book tells you is the
> palatal consonant after high vowels.  Actually, I suspect it may be
> Québecois, because I definitely heard it there, but all my French
> teachers but one have it.  On words ending in /i/ (esp /yi/) or /y/,
> there is usually a /C/ tacked on, often very prominently.  Sometimes
> (rarely) it's almost an /S/.  After /u/ it's much fainter and more of a
> /x/.
Weird!  And /C/ doesn't exist otherwise, right?  Nor /x/?  Is it only
certain words that acquire the /C/, or are any words ending in /i/ or
/y/ liable to that?

> The pedant in me forces me to say: the only scheme with [H] for turned-h
> is SAMPA.  The rest have: j<rnd> ;h h&  and  w" .  Not very good choices
> any of them, I'm afraid.
Well, /;h/ is part of a coherent system, the semicolon indicates
"inverted", so I'd say that it's the perfect choice within that system.

> Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier.
Hmm, interesting sig there.  :-)  Where'dja get it?

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