Re: [tied] Re: The Magic Mountain

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 23902
Date: 2003-06-26

Alex:
>This has nothing to do with your original post. It is just a simple
>question of how should have been rendered in proto-slavic a sound as
>schwa in the moment they heard it somewhere. Will it be rendered as
>"a", as "o" or as "o~"?

Alex?? You just aren't taking your medication, are you? I admit to
entering into this midway into the thread but... a "schwa" is known
by all who have libraries to mean a mid-central vowel. There is only
one pronunciation for the schwa. If someone is calling it a "schwa"
then this is what it is pronounced like -- a mid-central vowel. Your
question sounds severely misinformed. What do you think a schwa
is, Alex? How can one "render" a schwa as anything other than
a schwa?? If it's rendered as something else, it's not a schwa!!


= gLeN

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