Re: Hello, I'm new too

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, daniel andreasson wrote:

> Andrew Chaney wrote:
>
> > I'm rather new to this list [snip]
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~gllaurents/
>
> Yoon Ha wrote:
>
> > I looked at Ihro.  I confess I'm confused by things like "hw" and "hr."
> > Would it be possible to incorporate IPA equivalents so we know what the
> > di/graphs stand for, soundwise?
>
> That would be voiceless /w/ and /r/, wouldn't it?
<helpless look>  Perhaps it's obvious to those who know more
phonology/phonetics than I do (I know very little).  I like IPA because
I can look it up, whereas with descriptions (tense obstruents) I get lost
very easily.

YHL