On 09/09/2002 02:17:55 PM Barry Caplan wrote:
Mora sounds like jargon for a more specialized situation, unless I am
missing
something ...
No, mora is a technical term used in phonological analysis. Japanese is
a prime example of a language for which morae are key structural elements
in the
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:11:24AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
As all English users know (with certain degrees of pain), you can't
tell how you pronounce a given letter until you see the whole word or
even the whole sentence. In that sense I doubt how relevant
to categorize alphabets between
Peter Constable wrote:
On 09/09/2002 02:43:52 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote:
1. List Vowels - probably not vowels:
U+212B # (Å) ANGSTROM SIGN
Given that this is canonically equivalent with a-ring, does
it make sense to consider one a vowel but the other not?
I stand corrected.
Somehow, I
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:19:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 09/09/2002 02:43:52 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote:
1. List Vowels - probably not vowels:
U+212B # (Å) ANGSTROM SIGN
Given that this is canonically equivalent with a-ring, does it make sense
to consider one a vowel but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Off-hand, it seems that in English y mostly* is [j] if in initial position,
otherwise it's either [i] or [ai]. So it's either one consonant, or one or
two
vowels...
From a philological point of view, initial y in Modern English originally derives
from a palatal
g
I wrote:
Peter Constable wrote:
On 09/09/2002 02:43:52 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote:
1. List Vowels - probably not vowels:
U+212B # (Å) ANGSTROM SIGN
Given that this is canonically equivalent with a-ring, does
it make sense to consider one a vowel but the other not?
I stand
On 09/10/2002 01:10:19 AM Radovan Garabik wrote:
ANGSTROM SIGN is a symbol. It is not meant to be pronounced,
and if it is, it is pronounced something like IMHO /ɔŋʃtrom/
Now, that is neither vowel nor consonant, but a whole word :-)
You might think so, but things aren't so simple. By analogy,
Doug Ewell wrote:
... They are not necessarily intended to replace
the established mechanisms, although I suspect the ICU team does intend
BOCU to replace SCSU. ...
Nope. They have different properties and are useful for different if overlapping
applications.
BOCU-1 was developed for
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