On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:06:03 -0400 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
writes:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Danny Wier wrote:
> > I should've been clearer on /c/ -- I was trying to say the sound
> of "k"
> > before "i" (or better yet before a /j/ sound). A better example
> would be
> > "queue" /cu:/. To put it *very* roughly, /c/ is another way to say
> /kj/,
> > but that's not 100% accurate. (The voiced counterpart is a
> barred-j, or
> > an inverted f.)
>
> I went to that online-phonetics course link and listened to a whole
> bunch
> of sounds. It sounds like a neither-fish-nor-fowl sound to me, but
> that's because it's unfamiliar.
It's an amphibious consonant. ;]
DaW.