>>> with -ew- (aka yoo) for -u- in Camus, debut, Dupree? Also, why the -ey in the end of the last?
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>>"prey": I've already explained how your "eh" (as in "heh") is better and that was a slip-up. Dew-preh better
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>Um, sorry, I was distra... distraught? distressed?... I forgot you already corrected that one.

DISTRACTED?

Discombobulated? (an early American addition to the language), before verbs like "to leverage" and "to fragrance" became the norm)

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>>"ew" (french version thereof): forming the lips to say "o" but trying to say "ee" - in black & white above. Where's the "dyew" perception come from?
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>Ears. Not the word "dew", because that one is pronounced as "doo" (the way I hear it), but pretty much anything else that has -ew sounds like -yoo to me (ewe, new, skew, knew, spew, pew, few etc) except in the exceptions (dew, blew, sew, rewind).

The sound is more akin to the modern standard US female high school kid's stock expression of disgust (usually followed by "GROSS!"), without the emphasised "W" at the end. Voila!

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>This mutual attempt to explain sounds to each other by means of English alphabet, which is so divorced from the sounds it supposedly represents, is the reason I brought up the E.T. analogy.

Whereas the Serbian alphabet is IDEAL for ET words, esp. Klingon.

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>>>>And BTW, the ETs I've met, back home, know full well the difference twixt left and right.
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>>>That's back home. Try to explain to some you don't see and don't know where they are nor what (*) they are, with text only.
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>>>"what" in both meanings - which noun are they, i.e. their identity as persons, species etc, and which adjectives do apply to them.
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>>Huh?????
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>Q: What is a man who comes out of the water?
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>A1: a swimmer

If we're playing Jeopardy then strictly the question to the following answer should be "In what state is a man who comes out of the water?" (you answer "New Jersey" and I'll smite you from here!)
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>A2: wet
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>Another example:
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>Q: what is this place?
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>A1: it's a desert

Strictly the question to the following answer should be "In what state is this place?"

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>A2: it's dry
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>Now you tell me whether one of the answers has got the question completely wrong.

Not completely wrong but grammatically very lazy.

I still don't see how this pertains to what you said OR, indeed, to teh phonetics discussion.