Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:02:48 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:49:02AM -0700, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> > - X-Sampa refers to many and various languages, so
> > clearly one cannot say that X-Sampa handles about
> > "phonemes", but about "phones".
>
> (FWIW, "handles about" is nonstandard; "handles" doesn't normally combine
> with prepositions.  In this context I would go with "represents".)
I interpreted it as "deals with".

> "mild (voiced) th" (X-SAMPA [D]) doesn't
> exist in Spanish,
Eh? I thought it was the standard pronunciation of /d/ in certain
locations -- e.g. "Madrid" being something along the lines of
[ma"DriD]. At least in some dialects.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>