Re: [tied] Re: -osyo 4 (was: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory

From: enlil@...
Message: 32212
Date: 2004-04-23

Richard:
> Yep, three chrones allocated to two chronemes. Yucky but true.

Not yucky and true, you mean. You're trying to prove that
double-length isn't bizarre by using false examples. The above are
NOT examples showing "double-long" in English. I already told you
that. If you think _that's_ an example of double long, well then,
my friend, it appears I have double-long vowels in mLIE! Afterall,
I have *&, *&. and then *e/*a. You misunderstand what double-long
means though. It means that there is a functional contrast between
short, long and double-long. In English, there is no such contrast.
Such a three-way contrast is rare as Piotr himself has already
said.


= gLeN