On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:33 AM, tijlan <= jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:

On 22 June 2012 14:21, Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If this doesn't work, then the problem isn't the language = but either
>> the speaker's own vowel pronunciation or the surrounding noise= itself.
>> Chances are, in such an overwhelmingly noisy environment, even you= r
>> "q" would be misheard as a different consonant: "aq= a" as "aka", "iqi"
>> as "iji", etc.
>
> I am misunderstood. =C2=A0"q" is an hypothetical new consona= nt. =C2=A0It has
> nothing to do with guttural q=C3=A2f, or any guttural, hence any "= ;k" or
> "kh" or "q". =C2=A0 It is just a void symbol like = "x" in algebra.

I'm not saying it has to do with those consonants. My point is: i= f the
listening environment was so bad that I would mishear some properly
pronounced vowel as a different vowel, I could also mishear some
properly pronounced consonant as a different consonant.

>> A simpler solution:
>>
>> : <- [=CB=90]
>>
>> a:
>> e:
>> i:
>> o:
>> u:
>> so'a:
>> so'e:
>> so'i:
>> so'o:
>> so'u:
>> ...
>
> This does not work, nor does "VqV" either.
>
> Why ? =C2=A0Because, suppose somebody mispronounces the "a" = and "e" vowels.
> =C2=A0This would indeed be a source of noise. What then ? =C2=A0 She w= ill say
> "=C3=A6" instead of both "a" and "e". > But then, saying "=C3=A6q=C3=A6" or "=C3=A6:" inst= ead of "=C3=A6" does not help.
>
> Thus, another kind of solution is needed !

The problem is her pronunciation. The first obvious solution is some = exercise.

On 22 June 2012 15:42, Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
> A noisy channel would not prevent somebody from understanding
> correctly : "I want nune of those", or "I wand ell of t= hose". =C2=A0 But
> the same noise applied to one of the so'V words would be fatal.

- I want few of them.
- I wanted few of them.
- I want a few of them.
- I wanna feud over them.
- I won't feud over them.

More examples can be found in YouTube's automatic transcription:

= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DLifOwlzugbk

Turn on the CC button for the computer-generated subtitle, which is
supposed to represent the human speech as objectively heard. Note
where "when our economy was improving" is misheard as "when = are
condoms improving" at 0:30, which I don't think is less fatal than=
{so'o} being mistaken for {so'u}.

mu'o

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