[YG Conlang Archives] > [engelang group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
Mike S. scripsit: > That'd be a good choice if Lojban rules didn't declare [y] declare a > variant of /i/. Rounding is defined as nondistinctive in Lojban, so I > believe that /1/ and its rounded variant are the only choices enjoying a > significant chunk of vowel space. What's worse is that the whole of North America and parts of the U.K. are steadily moving /u/ forward toward [y], generation by generation. Ghosts no longer say [bu:]; they now say [bu\:], and fairly shortly it may well be [by:] outright. -- At the end of the Metatarsal Age, the dinosaurs John Cowan abruptly vanished. The theory that a single cowan@hidden.email catastrophic event may have been responsible http://www.ccil.org/~cowan has been strengthened by the recent discovery of a worldwide layer of whipped cream marking the Creosote-Tutelary boundary. --Science Made Stupid