Re: More Ere:tas: The fable of the North Wind and the Sun
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 16:21 |
Hi!
nd003k <nd003k@...> writes:
> aaaaaaaahhhhhhh! except e- e is definitely not like in
> phonetics... e would be like an epsilon (insert backwards 3
> here) like the e in red
Ok, you gave the IPA description, in Sampa its /E/ then. That's
precise enough.
However, the description by using `red' is, as always with English
examples, not correct for all dialects and confusing for me.
E.g. adapted from a (strange?) British dialect, I have /e/ there:
/red/, not /rEd/.
**Henrik