Re: [tied] Unreality...

> Now, in _Jens'_ sense of the word, yes, we could analyse any language
> really hard to yield whatever pattern we want, including so-called
> 'monovocalism',

No you can't. Any language in which a distinction between vowel phonemes
serves to distinguish minimal pairs cannot be so analysed.
Let's see you try with English bird board bard beard burred.

Peter