Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Phonetics (IPA)


> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:31:07 +0100 Joe <joe@...> writes:
> > > > >Aren't you the same Christophe Grandsire who claimed that
> > > > >you've never heard the word "claw" pronounced anything but
> > > > >/klaw/?   ;-)
>
> > > > What I said is that I never heard it otherwise than with a
> > > > diphtongue, and
> > > > I still stand to that claim. I *know* what I've heard, and I'm
> > > > not the kind
> > > > to mistake a diphtongue for a simple phone.
>
> > > For what it's worth, I pronounce "claw" as [klA:].  If you'd like
> > > me
> > > to post a recording so you can change the above statement, let me
> > > know. :)
>
> > And most Britons that I've met pronounce it [klO:].  I've never
> > heard a dipthong there.
> -
>
> Would a schwa-offglide pronounciation [klO@] count as a diphthong? :-)
>
I suppose...

Hmmm...Brooklyn?  From what little I've heard on TV, at a guess.

> -Stephen (Steg)
>