Re: some stewpid questions

Daniel Andreasson wrote:


>Danny Wier wrote:
>
>> Second, does anyone here have a fascination with reading/
>> writing things backwards?
>
>I do it all the time. And I mean ALL the time. I'm way
>past the "word backwards" thingy. It's too easy. I take
>entire sentences and turn them backwards trying to get
>the stress right and everything.
>
>The trickiest part is to get the tone accents right
>backwards. And of course the plosives (which are
>virtually impossible to pronounce correctly backwards).

Truly. I like to do this too, but without a reversible recorder it's not
much fun.  I assume you mean Swedish tone accents?  Engl. accents are hard
enough. Generally speaking, a "broad phonemic" transcription suffices,
though one should try to include as much phonetic detail as one can handle
(backwards), e.g. pre-aspiration.  BTW a backwards recording really proves
that Engl. "long" vowels have [j ~ w] offglides; to my ear, it makes Engl.
sound like Russian, spoken with a parody-Swedish accent.