Sound changes versus sound changes

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/20/01 2:48:10 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk writes:

> There is nothing "extreme" about French phonology, which in fact is rather
> unremarkable by world standards.  It is merely that French is rather more
> different in pronunciation from Proto-Romance than are most Romance
> languages.

-- rather like English vs. a vs. the other Germanic languages, perhaps.