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

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 21, 2004, 18:16
Paul Bennett wrote:
> Simple. If any attested language has a phonemic distinction between two > sounds, the IPA makes that distinction. It's as easy as that.
Well, that's not entirely true. There are languages that distinguish aspirated and unaspirated stops, and yet that's written with a diacritic. But, in general, that's true.