Re: Phonological equivalent of "The quick brown fox..."
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 1, 2007, 19:35 |
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:31:58AM +0000, R A Brown wrote:
> Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> >2007/2/1, Sai Emrys <sai@...>:
> >>"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" is used to test
> >>typewriters because it contains all the letters of English.
> >>
> >>What are equivalent spoken phrases, i.e. that contain all (English)
> >>phonemes (or phones, if you feel particularly ambitious)?
> >That would heavily depend on accents, right? This is definitely
> >inviting YAEPT.
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> I'm afraid it is. It will be obvious from the almost innumerable
> YAEPTs that there is unlikely to be agreement over just what are all
> the English phonemes. As for phones ........
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ObConlang: What about y'all's conlangs? :-)
T
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