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

Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:03:58 -0400, J. 'Mach' Wust
> <j_mach_wust@...>
> wrote:
>
>> Regarding SAMPA (or CXS or X-SAMPA): I always confuse the digits used
>> for
>> the representation of sounds, mainly '2' and '9' which I use most. Has
>> anybody already suggested the use of e\ and E\?
>
Learn French. I believe it has [2] for _deux_ and [9] for _neuf_.
Alternatively, [2] is the secondary second cardinal vowel. Or going
anticlockwise (which seems to be the normal way, starting at [i]), you
come to [2] before [9], and 2 is lower than 9.

> I've seen /E\/ used for the vowel between /e/ and /E/, likewise /O\/ for
> the vowel between /o/ and /O/, and /A\/ for the vowel between /a/ and
> /A/,
> that is a tense /6/. I'm not sure how standardised this is, but I've seen
> it in more than one place.

Hmm, I've never seen that (but maybe I was asleep). It seems odd, unless
some language in question distinguishes /e/ from /E/ from something in
between, because if you've only got one mid vowel, you generally use /e/.

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