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John Cowan, On 28/08/2012 21:36:
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.
There are very few parts of the UK where it's still [u] and in some parts it's already [y]. As for filling the gap vacated by GOOSE, some dialects pretty much have _too_ [ty], _tool, tall_ [tu]. --And.