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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Least phonemes
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:27:40 GMT
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In article <56r87n$ed8@news4.digex.net>,
Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org> wrote:
>petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) wrote:
>>Steve MacGregor <SteveMac@GoodNet.Com> wrote:
>
>>>  How, exactly, would one determine whether one phoneme is less than
>>>another?
>
>>	IT's the NUMBER of phonemes (sets of sounds treated as equivalent)
>>that's what's important. 
>
>I think Steve MacGregor was (too subtly, apparently) trying to
>say that the subject should read "Fewest phonemes".

	Goody for him.  He should feel free to change the subject heading
when he follows-up with something relevant to the discussion.  Last I
checked, this was sci.lang, and not alt.usage.english, so I fail to see
what purpose the attempted enforcement of prescriptivist rules serves
here.


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