Re: OT: Junk/Dim S(ui)m

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> What's 'echt'?
Pukka, authentic, from German.  He meant to say "not very echt".

The "dim sum"/"dim sim" romanization conflict represents the fact that
the second vowel is [@] (though phonemically /a/), and English has no
one way of spelling it.  In America, the "u" of "but" is [V], and [V]
and [@] have no phonemic contrast, so "sum" as in what you get from
adding two numbers well represents the original.

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