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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 14:52
Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> You've affirmed that you've seen different phonetic transcriptions of a > German diphthong: [O2] and [OY]. I've replied that they are meant to > represent exactly the same sound.
That could explain some of the variation, but one has to assume that the texts that have specifically contrasted [O2] and [OY] (generally to say that the former is the standard pronunciation) did _not_ intend them to mean the same thing. Andreas