- strange, oha
- less, fewer, gak
would COMP think-AGT.1.S-HAB-NEG COMP COP-PRES ⟨ʒ⟩ strange less exist-ABL yogh
I would not think that ⟨ʒ⟩ is less strange than the yogh.
This is especially true of a language like English which does not really have grammaticalized registers.
This is probably inspired by Hanyu Pinyin, in which /ə/ by itself is written ⟨e⟩ but is actually pronounced [ɤ] while ⟨ei⟩ is pronounced [ei].Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:02 pm On Wikipedia just now, I have found a natlang (Bai) that spells /ɯ/ as e (/e/ is ei). I am quite astounded.