Re: religion, etc
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 21, 2001, 16:04 |
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:42:58 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...>
wrote:
>Samuel Rivier scripsit:
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>> By the way, is the pinyin graph [e] pronounced /e/,
>> /E/, /3/, /@/, /3`/, /@`/, or what?
>
>It is [e] in "ei" [ei], mostly [@] otherwise.
Also [E] in {ie} or {ye}, [œ] (oe-ligature) in {ue}; what John
transcribes as [@] is in fact the back (rather than central) sound
commonly denoted with the symbol resembling 8 with removed top arch
(I don't remember the ASCII representation for it).
Basilius