Re: retroflex consonants

> He meant [T] *or* [D] constitutes two sounds. A better example would've
> been 'a native English speaker, though clearly not one with linguistic
> training, might swear that 'sh' constitutes two sounds'.
The same way I and another native English speaker were discussing Esperanto
pronunciation (online), and he was talking about how it is hard to say
consonant
clusters like n-g-t, and I thought I was showing my linguistic prowess by
saying
that |ng| is really only one sound, [N].  But I was being stupid, because in
Esperanto the cluster is actually pronounced -[ngt]-, and I had been
mispronouncing
it [N] the whole time.  For some reason I had thought that [N] was the one
exception
to the "one letter-one sound" rule.  Oh well.

>
> Tristan
Jake

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