Re: More Ere:tas: The fable of the North Wind and the Sun
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 3, 2001, 0:37 |
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In a message dated 11/2/01 4:30:32 PM, anstouh@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:
<< I don't know how you are with length distinguintions, but you wouldn't like
to come to Australia. Torn=/tO:n/, tonne=/tQn/ (gone=/gQ:n/, but there
isn't such a thing as *gawn /gO:n/ >>
"Distinguintions"; what a lovely word. ~:D I thought that [O] was just
another way of writing [Q]. I was under the impression that both were
symbols for rounded, open-mid back vowels, just that one was SAMPA and one
was X-SAMPA. What do these two represent?
-David
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