Re: question on sampa representation

Tristan scripsit:

> I'm just wondering... is the vowel in words like 'fur' (which I think is
> normally written as /f@r/) the same phoneme again in American English?
J.C. Wells (see below) certainly thinks so.  Others would rather
postulate a vocalic /r\=/ phoneme; certainly that is the phonetic fact,
if more expensive theoretically.

> Chutzpah? J. C. Wells?
"Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word, which as already noted means something like
"presumptuousness", but with a slightly more positive spin.  The classic
example is the man who murders his father and his mother, and then
throws himself on the mercy of the court, on the grounds that he is an
orphan!

J.C. Wells is the inventor of X-SAMPA, editor of the Longmans Pronouncing
Dictionary, former Secretary of the International Phonetics Association
(keepers of the IPA), English-language dialectologist, long-distance
runner, and Esperantist.  In short, the Daniel Jones of our day.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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