Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tHXFm-0000ZUC; Mon, 20 Nov 95 16:31 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id B814E512 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:31:26 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:35:45 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Buffer and Vowel phonology X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199511180649.BAA02798@locke.ccil.org> from "Logical Language Group" at Nov 18, 95 01:41:24 am Content-Length: 570 Lines: 14 la lojbab. cusku di'e > We have yet to experience a heavily buffered dialect. So far we arguing > theory, and the language has not degraded at all. (In actuality, the > tendency for English speakers to turn unstressed final 'a' into schwa > has been FAR more serious as a degradation than anything you have > proposed might happen - we can't even understand OURSELVES when we do > this. I hasten to add that he means "American English speakers of Lojban". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.