Re: I'm finally asking (re French)

On Nov 12, 8:59 pm, Odysseus <odysseus1479...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mb <azyth...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
....
Of course it can and it must. It is "don-neh".

French-Canadian, eh?

No (confessing that I still have serious trouble with Canadian). It
is, again, a question of what sound is more or less easily
recognizable by the language's own speakers --but with no regard for
what sounds they actually make. In this case, they have generally 2,
sometimes up to 4 [eE] but, considering that a single /eE/ is always
understable, we choose one sound in range. Not within that range,
though, is [ej], which corresponds to a different phonemic position ("-
eï, eille").

.

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