Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovel

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61184
Date: 2008-11-01

--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 4:59 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister"
> <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> It obviously despite your confusion of arbitrary
> conventions with rules.
>
> By your logic, English /h/ would be a vowel because some
> speakers say "an
> history".
>
> ========
>
> Absurd,
>
> People who say an (h)istory just have no h here in this
> word.

Au contraire mon frère, the columnist George Will says /aen hIstriy/ all the time. It's especially common among conservative writers in the US.

>
> The fact English has <a ewe> means <ewe>
> /ju(w)/ starts with a consonant
> from the point of view of the English language.
> but this is not the case in French as yeux "eyes"
> has les Z-yeux implying
> that yeux is /iö/ not **/jö/.
>
> And I'm afraid you are confusing orthography with real
> speech.
>
> Arnaud

You are confusing conventions with morpho-syntax. Start reading y dejá de webear (websurf spelling of huevear).