Re: Phonetic scripts and diphthongs ...
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 16, 2004, 2:02 |
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Vehke wrote:
<< On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:42:35PM -0400, David Peterson wrote:
> He chose a random student (native English speaker) and gave them a
> series of words. After each word, they had to say whether it was in
> the set, or whether it wasn't.
What is _in the set_ supposed to mean here?>>
It's just a part of the "game", as it were. This game can be played with
anything. You don't have to say "in the set", you could simply say "yes"
or "no". To give a different example, let's say I said "mallard", and you
said "in the set", and I said "correct". Next, I say "orangutang", you say
"in the set" again, but I say "incorrect". Then it would go along, and
eventualy you'd figure out that what it meant to be "in the set", in this
game, was to be some sort of fowl. Thus, that's what "in the set" means
in the context of the game I just set up. In the context of my previous
example, "in the set" meant "beginning with a consonant cluster". Does
that make sense?
-David
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