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Sorry I don't know how to clearly formulate it.

But for exemple in french, there are the sounds /o/ and /ɔ/ are weakly separated. They are differentiated in the way they are pronounced. But, in term of meanings they are more considered two variants of the vowel "O" than really two distinct vowels. What I mean is compared to "standard french frome France" people from Marseille will replace /o/ with /ɔ/ in many words and on the opposite people from Lille will replace some /ɔ/ with /o/. Those switched sounds will be recongnized as different accents but will not hinder the comprehension between people with different accents.

On the opposite, the sounds /y/ and /u/ are strongly separated as two different vowels "U" and "OU", and typically english speakers when speaking french with a beginner level will often mix them, which are more likely to cause confusion and misunderstanding.

Is this something that is frequent in many languages. Are there official terms to describe those distinction between "weakly separated" and "strongly separated" sounds in a language ?

Looking at ancient tapestries we can see in castles and museum, the colors looks to have worn out. I was thinking about it after seeing some from the 16th century. Especially the more pastel tones light blues and greens seem to have disapeared, and overall they seem to have taken a yellowish tint. And it seems they look very different now than what they looked when they were made.

Are there ways to determine the actual initial color, have there been attempt to do recontruction of the orginal look of some of them with Photoshop or similar softwares.

In the french version, the shrines are translated into "sanctuaire", wich is also the translation for the sanctuary and it makes things sometimes quite confusing.

It would be great if they change the translation of shrine to an other word like "autel" to be less ambiguous of what building it refers to.

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