[Spellyans] reDistribution of <i> and <y>
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Wed Jul 23 21:46:23 BST 2008
At 22:37 +0200 2008-07-23, Daniel Prohaska wrote:
>{} "I think Dan is really mixing up things
>here, because on the one hand he is talking
>about stressed monosyllables and on the other
>unstressed final syllables. These are not the
>same things." {}
>
>{} "Where Dan has seemed to me to mix things up
>is in his other examples." {}
>
>Excuse me, Michael, I know the difference
>between stressed and unstressed syllables -
>thank you very much.
I know you do. But you were discussing these
things as though they were related to each other,
and I don't believe that this makes sense.
>I'm not mixing anything up! I was posing a
>completely legitimate question. I resent your
>"interpretation". Your post will be answered at
>a later date, but I did want to get this off my
>chest first!
I (legitimately) thought that you were mixing
things up because you were treating the two
different things together when they are not
analogous.
--
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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