Re: CHAT: (no subject)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 1:32 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> 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).
But, he gave every the value of every letter which varies even a little
from English (like "zh"), and none of them had the value /p/. Plus, he
told me that he hated the sound of /p/ in an instant messenger
conversation.
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