Re: OT: German reputation

J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
(I wrote:)
[Re "dios" >At least, with a clear [i] (but barely syllabic) rather than
[j].
> >(Maybe too they're trying to sound "American"??)
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> I think the IPA doesn't allow a distinction between "barely" syllabic and
> unsyllabic. An unsyllabic [i] is a [j].
Pardon my impressionistic term. Actually there seem to be two ways:
1. "extra short", with a breve, CSX _X, e.g. e_X
2. "non-syllabic", with a subscript inverted breve, CSX _^ e.g. e_^

Ref.: http://cassowary.free.fr/Linguistics/cxschart.png
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