Re: OT: clothing terms (was: Re: OT: CUNY...)

Jim Hopkins wrote:
>
>Adreas wrote re "Anglophone annotation"
>
>It may be my lacking intelligence but "Anglophone annotation" is all I am
>familiar with.  SAMPA I have no knowledge of.  I will check out the
>website.
>
>Granted, English is not be the first language of all list members so some
>may
>find "nothing less helpful" than my  "Anglohone annotation." As the list is
>being conducted in English I included it because I felt it might be helpful
>to some.  In the Druni native Shpilavi script such problems do not arise
>and
>even in the present romanization system written accents are used to
>indicate
>at least stress.
If your romanization is reasonably intuitive with a strong sound-to-letter
correspondence, at least I would probably benefit more if you simple
included some quick discription of it (on the lines of "K sounds like
English 'k' in 'king'" etc).

                                             Andreas

PS And yes, English isn't my native lang.
>
>My apologies to all who did not find the "Anglophone annotation" helpful.
>To
>those who benefitted from it, thank you, and perhaps from time to time I
>will
>include more "Anglophone annotation" to illustrate the sounds of Druni.
>
>Greetings
>Jim H
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