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Re: Your Help Appreciated

From:John Mietus <sirchuck@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 9, 2000, 10:14
Raymond Brown spake, saying:

> At 5:53 am -0500 8/5/00, John Mietus wrote: > [....] >> Then Raymond Brown spake, saying: >> >>> At 2:35 pm -0500 7/5/00, John Mietus wrote: >>>> Primarily orthographic. The <kth> would be something like the orthographic >>>> <cth> cluster I've seen in some Greek words, >>> >>> If so, they were carelessly transliterated. >> [...] >> Got it. What I'm going for is something like /kT/. > > Right - I guess you're probably thinking of /kT/ in words like > 'ichthyology', ichthyosaur' etc. They are of Greek origin, but the /kT/ > pronunciation is _English_ , not Greek. No reason, however, not have it in > your language also. >
Right -- or "chthonian" -- again, English pronunciation.
>> Sure. As I explained above, it's more of a /v/ without the lips touching or >> any dental element -- oh, or a "w" without any articulation of the lips, >> where the air vibrates the lips. I only ever use the sound as an initial >> consonant. > > If the air vibrates the lips, we must have a fricative sound of some sort. > If there is no dental element, then it sounds very much like the voiced > labial fricative that Carlos suggested. Drop the "denasalized /m/" > termonology; the IPA symbol is a Greek lower-case beta, which is ASCIIfied > as /B/.
Got it and done. Thanks.
> Keep at it - we're all still learning in our own ways. And I've found most > people on this list are very helpful. > > Good luck with your project! >
Thanks --Everyone's been so helpful already. John