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| Oct 23, 2020 at 17:38 | comment | added | AlexP | English has between 15 and 22 vowels, depending on who counts and how they count. I've never ever seen a description of English giving less than 15 vowels. From where do you get five? I would be most happy if there was a variant of English with only five vowels, because I could then map them cleanly on Romanian vowels. And anyway, let's count to eleven: part, pan, cup (3 for Spanish a), pet (Spanish e), pit, peace (2 for Spanish i), lot, thought (2 for Spanish o), put, soon (2 for Spanish u); and letter with no Spanish counterpart. | |
| Oct 23, 2020 at 17:26 | comment | added | Ash | @AlexP What are they then? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_phonology#Vowels says there is only the same 5 as English. We're trying to scramble pronunciation but keep it recognisable vowels are the easiest and simplest places to attack. | |
| Oct 23, 2020 at 17:23 | comment | added | AlexP | A site which begins with the idiotic assertion that Spanish has the same five vowels as English should be closed immediately and never reopened. They probably mean to say that Spanish has this in common with English that it is written with a variant of the Latin alphabet. Which I would suppose that everybody already knew. | |
| Oct 23, 2020 at 17:20 | comment | added | Ash | @AlexP 1) spanishdict.com/guide/spanish-vowels 2) Spelling is not an issue as per OP. 3) I didn't say they were meaningless, I said I was a heathen for ignoring them even. 4) Some things would be unnatural, alien even. That's the point. | |
| Oct 23, 2020 at 17:18 | comment | added | AlexP | (1) Spanish most definitely does not have the same vowels as English. Not even close. Not even remotely similar. (Spanish has five wovels, English has between 15 and 22, depending on who counts and how they count.) (2) Your circular replacement of wovel letters would wreak havoc on the Spanish spelling conventions. (3) Those acute accents are not meaningless decorations. (4) The result would be extremely unnatural. Look for example at the last two words, ta lódir: as a Romance speaker, don't you feel something fishy about them? | |
| Oct 23, 2020 at 17:03 | history | answered | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |