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Re: CHAT: (no subject)

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 7:37
Nik Taylor wrote:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote: > > He's not talking about /p/ or [p]; he's talking about <p>, the orthographic > > letter. > > And he said that all letters were pronounced as English, except the ones > he listed. So, no {p} and no weird value for /p/ means no /p/
But his list was discussing the way in which he was *transcribing* the sounds of his language. He said nothing about which sounds he actually *had*. All he said was that the orthographic representation <p> is not used in his schema, but that does not mean there is no sound /p/ (using the IPA schema). The easiest way to resolve this is, of course, just to ask him. So, Austin, do you have words which have roughly the same sound as that of <p> in English "pie"? (Ignoring for the moment how you actually write them down) ======================================================= Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." Denn wo Begriffe fehlen, Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein. -- Mephistopheles, in Goethe's _Faust_ ========================================================