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

* Philippe Caquant said on 2004-07-21 16:35:54 +0200
> BTW, I may have bad eyes, but I couldn't find any differentiation
> between English and French 'p' (like in 'pound' # 'pondre') or 't'
> (like in 'to' # 'tout') for ex. To me, the English consonants are much
> stronger. Did I miss something ? Or does one have to use diacritic
> signs ?
Depends on how wide or narrow your transcriptipn is.

wide: (closer to) phonemes, approximate sounds
narrow: phonetic,  more (lots!) diacritics

A difference between English and French unvoiced stops is that the
English (heck, "germanic" in general) ones are aspirated most places
(superscript h is the diacritic).

And please don't top-post, email is better as a conversation than a
lecture (as in WordNet 2.0's "lecture", noun, meanings 1 and 3[*].
Meaning 2 would be impolite and leads to flame wars).

[*] Noun meaning 2 is connected to verb meaning 2 in this case, but that
connection is not explicit, proving that WordNet can still be improved
:)  (It needs a way of filtering away all the pesky encyclopedic
information anyway (places and people)... I'll look those up in an
encyclopedia, thank you very much.)


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