Solmisation [was RE: Digest Number 1219]

Paul,

Thanks for the quick correction!

Perhaps I should have written "I can't think of one in Spanish
offhand" - as I am familiar with both "soy" and "estoy" in
Spanish, as very common and necessary words.

However, my position on using /oj/ is unchanged. Many other
languages seem not to include that diphthong, and where it
does occur, it's spelling is far too variable for quick acceptance.

Regards,
Yahya

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:00:01 -0000
From: "Paul Erlich" <perlich@aya.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Digest Number 1219

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "Yahya Abdal-Aziz" wrote:

> On the sequence of vowels, I agree that we need six or seven distinct
> vowels - or diphthongs - if we are to have a change of consonant on
> change of compound nominals. But the choice of the diphthongs /aj/
> and /oj/ [using the IPA forms] suffer from the problems of being spelt
> quite differently in many languages - for example, /oj/ is "oy" or "oi" in
> English, "eu" in German and "oe" in Latin. Further, that sound does not
> occur in Spanish or Malay, which I think is another strike against wide-
> spread acceptance.

It does occur in Spanish. The second word in "Yo soy", which means I
am, is only one syllable, and contains the dipthong in question.

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I don't think variable spelling can count against any vowel sound
being used in an extended solfa.

According to Julie Andrews :-) the second note of the major scale is
pronounced "ray" (of sun). What english speaker would have chosen to
spell it "re".

Let folks spell them however they like. The important thing is the
distinctness of the vowel sounds.

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "Yahya Abdal-Aziz" <yahya@m...> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> Thanks for the quick correction!
>
> Perhaps I should have written "I can't think of one in Spanish
> offhand" - as I am familiar with both "soy" and "estoy" in
> Spanish, as very common and necessary words.
>
> However, my position on using /oj/ is unchanged. Many other
> languages seem not to include that diphthong, and where it
> does occur, it's spelling is far too variable for quick acceptance.
>
> Regards,
> Yahya