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Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ? Am I right??

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Sunday, November 11, 2001, 4:28
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:11:09 -0800, SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>
wrote:

>Originally from >City: Struthers [s_tra:T\Erz] >County: Mahoning [mahO:ning] <-- what is "ng"?? >State: Ohio [O:ha:jO:] >Country: USA [ju:Es"eI] >Now I live in >Ward: Suginami [sugi:nami] >City: Tokyo [tO:kiO:] >Country: Japan [dZ_pA:n] > >Would appreciate corrections (as I'm sure everyone >knows Japan or Tokyo, at least!)
[O:] is the British "or". From these examples, it looks like you meant the English long "o" sound, which varies from one dialect to another, but it's something like [oU] or [ow] in many American dialects. (Actually, I'm pretty sure the American /o/ isn't fully rounded, but this is a broad transcription.) And I assume your "Japan" is [dZ@p{:n]; the schwa vowel is written [@], and two common ways of writing the "a" in "pan" sound are [&] (Kirshenbaum) and [{] (SAMPA, X-SAMPA). Some people mix systems and use mostly X-SAMPA with a few Kirshenbaum substitutions. -- languages of Azir------> ---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/index.html>--- hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no body, \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin