Re: Improved (Short) Ygyde

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:59:54PM -0700, Joe Fatula wrote:
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> Are you still looking to make an international language, or is Ygyde just
> for fun at this point?  If you're still working on it as an IAL, it's got a
> long ways to go, but if it's just for fun, I think it's kind of interesting.
> Either way, I'd suggest changing the pronunciation of "y" to something else,
> because the way it is now, it's too similar to "i" for most people.  The
> u-umlaut sound in German would be good - it's distinct, relatively common in
> the world's languages, and it's sometimes represented by "y".
I agree. I have a lot of trouble distinguishing between [I] and [i]; I can
hear the difference easily, but I think of them as the same phoneme, and I
often mispronounce one for the other. But I like [y], I think it's a
beautiful sound.[1] :-)

[1] Which *could* be an unconscious factor in deciding to use [Hy] as the
feminine proper noun prefix in Ebisedian.


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