Re: Hangul script type: (was Re: [OT] ANN: Site about scripts)

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> The reflection pairing p and f, b and v might have been featural, but he
> fails to apply it to the other stop/fricative pairs.

The pairing is not reflection but rotation. It irrationally pairs
y/w and h/ng, but otherwise is perfect.

> (Of course, Shaw wasn't interested in a phonetic alphabet per se; he
> wanted to impose RP on all the stupid people who spoke non-RP dialects
> all over Britain (or maybe just England, or maybe the world).

This is nonsense, I'm afraid. Shaw's views on the quality of non-RP
speech, especially General American, are amply on record. He even
tried to get the BBC to say /'keInaIn/ instead of /k{n@.../ for
"canine".


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