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

Paul Bennett said:
> 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/.
Sorry, I'd better supply some markup.

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It's okay to feel overwhelmed. Phonetics is not for everybody.
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-- Mark