Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 21:04 |
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:30:22 -0500, Mark P. Line <mark@...>
wrote:
>> I had a look to the various charts, some of them I had
>> seen before, and this looks all very complicated, or
>> say, intricated.
>
> It's okay to feel overwhelmed. Phonetics is not for everybody.
I disagree. I think phonetics is for anyone who wants to meaningfully
discuss any concrete examples of languages, con- or nat-.
You wouldn't be able to take part in a physics discussion without first
mastering (to a greater or lesser extent) the rules of algebra, and the
same theory should hold at least at strongly in linguistics. Know the
perfect from the imperfect, and know /S/ from /q/.
Paul
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