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

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.