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

Philippe Caquant wrote:
> IMO, the main goal of an IPA is to give an image of
> what really exists and is really used, and not of what
> perhaps could exist somewhere
So far as I know, that's what the IPA *does* already do.  I don't know
of any IPA symbols for sounds that don't exist *somewhere*, however
uncommon it may be.

> Sure, this is all a lot of work
Which you could avoid if you'd simply learn the terminology ...

Here's a couple of websites you can use:
http://www.languagegeek.com/roman/phonetics.html
http://www.zompist.com/kitlong.html#sounds

A few seconds on google would find you quite a few sites.

> (it is perfectly possible
> to get understood by English people pronouncing the
> "t"s the French way)
Not really.  If you use the French /t/ word-initially, your listener is
liable to mishear it as a /d/

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