Talk:Close front rounded vowel

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A discussion on the close front compressed vowel has been moved to that talk page. kwami 07:42, 2005 September 12 (UTC)

[edit] Format problems

There are several problems with the formatting and structure of this article.

1. You're not supposed to have two articles in the same wiki
2. You're not supposed to use h1 at all
3. What is a section called "Close front compressed vowel" doing on a page called "Close front rounded vowel"?

It seems to me there are various options for fixing the page:

1. Move the whole page to Close front vowel, assuming that's correct terminology, and move all headers up by one (h1->h2, h2->h3). Then Close front rounded vowel will automatically redirect to Close front vowel; a redirect there for Close front compressed vowel should be added as well.
2. Split Close front compressed vowel off into its own wiki. Remove the level-one header for "Close front rounded vowel" (introductory text should go above the first header).
3. If close front compressed vowels are really a less-important subsidiary topic of close front rounded vowels, then remove level-one header for "close front rounded vowel" and change header for "close front compressed vowel" to level two.
4. Or maybe something else, that people more familiar with the topic than I am might think of.

Linguists should decide which option is best, but it really can't be left as is. An encyclopedia needs a certain stylistic uniformity, at least to the level of font sizes in headers. --Trovatore 16:23, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I'd proposed creating three new articles for the three compressed vowels above, and the response I got was "Nah. A whole darned article just for compression seems over the top when we have so much room left in these." Your first suggestion would work, but would be completely out of line from all the other vowel articles, where there are separate articles for rounded and unrounded (well, except one, which has a similar problem to these three). The third option is no good, at least in my opinion; compression is not a subcategory of rounding phonetically, though it often goes by that name (inrounded vs. outrounded). I'll be happy to create the articles, as I'd offered before; I just didn't want to create a schism. kwami 05:41, 2005 September 12 (UTC)

Well, I think it would probably be a good idea to go ahead and create them, then. Very short articles might not be ideal, but they're certainly less problematic than level-one headers inside articles. --Trovatore 06:05, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Done. kwami 07:33, 2005 September 12 (UTC)

[edit] Scandinavian vs German French /y/

Question: What about the fact that there is a very significant difference between the Scandinavian y-sound, and the german/french y-sound? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.241.73.108 (talk • contribs).