Re: More on the Hermetic Language

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:30:18AM -0600, Paul Burgess wrote:
[snip]
> Ummmm, oh gee, there was a time when I was more or less
> familiar with the IPA. But that was way back 25 years
> ago or more.
I think you'll find out pretty soon that you'll just have to pick it up
again if you want to accurately describe your phonology. Sometimes, we get
very nitpicky about pronunciations, being lingofreaks that we are. :-)

> "mnah Vah-NAHN-thah," with "ah" like the /a/ in
> "father" or the /o/ in "hot" (pronounced the same in the
> part of the American Midwest where I live). And /th/ as
> in "thin." In Hermetic, there is less of a tendency than
> in English for this vowel to tend toward schwa in
> unaccented syllables.
[snip]

Eeek. You probably don't realize this, but this will spawn off a massive
discussion about English pronunciations and how each dialect and idiolect
is different, and so on. To save us some headache, you might find this
helpful (esp. for transcribing the IPA into ASCII):

        http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif


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