Danny Wier wrote:
>| No I mean the central(ized) equivalent of small oe-ligature: half open
>| rounded central vowel.
>| Sorry to give the impression there was a diphthong...
>
>It's okay, blame ASCII. That one I never heard, unless it's the French
schwa,
>which I was told is slightly rounded. (I should know, I took two years in
high
>school). The centralized [ø] (o-slash) is o-bar (i.e. centralized o), but
the
>centralized [oe] (ligature) is written as a closed backwards epsilon (in
other
>words, a small 3 with the left side points merged together). It still
sounds
>like French _un_ denasalized...
Cf. my answer to BPJ. Essentially we agree. You obviously have a very good
ear :-)))) I'd forgotten about the modified [3] symbol you mention. (Damn,
I MUST dig out my old phonetics textbook.)