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> Oh yeah, no way that people pronounce ‘u’ and ‘a’ similarly. Take their example "gutuk-bisog." The second 'u' could easily have a schwa sound. Now imagine s
by jancsika 8y ago
> Oh yeah, no way that people pronounce ‘u’ and ‘a’ similarly.
Take their example "gutuk-bisog." The second 'u' could easily have a schwa sound.
Now imagine someone pronounces that string over the
phone. The recipient then asks the speaker if that vowel is one of [eauo]. Now the speaker's brain uncontrollably fits whatever wrong letter the recipient utters into the slot to realize the ambiguity.
Now the recipient had better hope the speaker just hard-coded "second vowel is 'u'" into their memory. Because there's no other information to resolve the ambiguity.
Yet how would the speaker have known ahead of time to do that?
- titanomachy 8y agoPeople using this system would have to learn to be more precise with their pronunciation and say a true /u/ instead of letting it become a shwa. This could still work in situations with some kind of error correction. Like "read your user ID" where gutuk-bisog is a valid user id but (e.g.) gutak-bisog is unlikely to be.