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Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Thursday, April 26, 2001, 13:50
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, SuomenkieliMaa wrote:

> I can attest first hand that the Japanese "r" is NOT a > sound you want to keep in any tongue! Take it from > this American guy who's made Tokyo his home for the > past 4 years... FYI, it is a cross between Spanish > thrilled "rr" and the Korean "l" - depends on the > situation, if the Japanese is shouting or upset it > tends to sound very "r"ish, but otherwise it is a > quite soft tone, like they try to say "l" but are > impended to do so.
What if you like it? Korean "l"? Only with ssang-rieut and certain mutations. <puzzled look> 'Sides, Tsuhon (like most of my conlang projects) is intended for eventual use in a SF novel. The reader will pronounce fragments, if s/he bothers, as s/he likes. But for now, I like Japanese r, and l, and all the other related variants. Dialects, dialects, dialects. YHL