Re: The Pronunciation of {hsara}

Your English is fine, iisem.  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
is intended for the general reader, but it covers many interesting
topics, and IMHO is well worth the price for conlanging inspiration.

I mentioned it in another post, but let me say again -- J.C.
Catford's _An Introduction to Phonetics_ is a wonderful "how-to" book
on phonetics.  It doesn't make any assumptions about what your native
language is, and it gives very clear instructions on how to pronounce
just about every sound used in the world's languages (and several that
are not, just for completeness! :)

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Ed doesn't know everything, but he hasn't figured that out yet.
Please break it to him gently.              edheil@postmark.net
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iisem :P wrote:

> In a message dated 10/14/99 4:05:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> edheil@POSTMARK.NET writes:
>
> << Thanks, Austin.
>
>  Don't feel you have to suddenly become a linguistics freak just out
>  of peer pressure.  But if you think it would be useful to know the
>  jargon, you can find some good simple explanations of terms on the
>  web, incluiding our own Pablo Flores' guide to language creation:
>
>  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/1021/how.html
>
>  Ed >>
>
> thanks Ed!  i'm semi-new to the list and thus i lurk,  this new info may
help
> me as well.  i have a dificult time also when it comes to the phonetic
> descriptions (i.e. /@/ etc...)  perhaps this page will help that too.
>
> also, i've heard of a book "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language"  to
whom
> is that book geared towards?  the more learne'd of the layman?  (sincere
> appologies for my English)
>
> oel oushean!
>
> iisem
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