Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > I was thinking the Japanese alveolar tap (?), but then thought perhaps it
> > might be nice to allow various l's and other r's to be allophones.
>
> Please, don't keep the Japanese {r}!  :-)  That's the one sound in
> Japanese I hate.  :-)  Maybe you can make it into /l/, a much prettier
> sound.  :-)
<puzzled look>  But I like the Japanese {r} better than /l/.  Perhaps I
could give you your own dialect with /l/ instead?

YHL