Re: Characters (was: Nice comment, Adam! (was: beautiful scripts))

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> the kanji for _kae(ru)_ to return (umm, don't know the Mandarin but
> it's cantonese /kwAi5/)
Sidney Lau proffers "gwai1"; it's "gui1" in Mandarin. >>

Hmm...I'm not familiar with traditional tone numbering, I was using
the method I've seen people use to "translate" the Chao tone letters
(1=low 5=high), and I was trying to stick close to IPA usage (excuse
my blatant replacement of the IPA symbol upside down a with /A/).

Additionally, my phonology says that the contrast that the Lau
orthography states as "k/g, p/b" etc is actually
unaspirated/aspirated, which I agree with...

Incidentally, my little brother of 7 years pronounces the vowel /A/
(excuse blatant mis-use!) in Cantonese as /a/ and I'm pretty sure he
uses voiced stops where most people would have unaspirated stops...

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