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Re: IPA tones

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 22:09
DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> For example, the standard Mandarin > > tones are approximately (in the usual order, and ignoring tone sandhi): > > 55, 52, 214, 15. > > Surely you meant 55, 15, 214, 52.
Umm, right, oops, boneheaded blunder *thwack* And the Pinyin diacritics are so nicely mnemonic, too. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein