Re: Killer IPA strings was Re: Yer Ugly Mug is open for business!

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:16:38 -0500 Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>
writes:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 04:30 pm, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> > how about a death threat in kxqqhwiiallccre
> > [L\_rR\_0h_vH_0y{_0L\j\_r9_0]?
> > txroollcx qxracc hr??juaaqxltxm ccamwu? iimttjall!
> > [l`_rL_q_02L\L_r N\_o_oL_q{_0j\_r h_vL_qY_0{N\_o_ol`l`_rF
> j\_r{_0FHYk_q
> > yFz`_rL{_0L\]
> > hehe!  i don't think it matters that that's a death threat... >
anyone who
> > tries to pronounce it will probably kill himself ;)))
>         I'll say! I had to feed the above text into the X-SAMPA >
translator[1] just to
> make any sense of it at all, and I am still hopelessly lost as to
> how in the
> heck that is pronounced. Too bad there's not an IPA-to-speech
> program. That
> would be really great!
the reason for this is that the IPA doesn't have symbols for all the
sounds in kxqqhwiiallccre (retroflex, palatal, and pharyngeal trills;
retroflex, palatal, velar, and uvular lateral fricatives; pharyngeal
stop...), which makes it impossible to write readable X-SAMPA to
represent it... i noticed a mistake in that, though. it should be:
[l`_rL_q_02L\L_r N\_o_oL_q{_0j\_r h\L_qY_0{N\_o_ol`l`_rF j\_r{_0FHYk_q
yFz`_rL{_0L\]

of course if you're using an X-SAMPA translator, you should change the
{'s to &'s and it might choke on the N\_o_o (anyone know of a better way
to represent a uvular lateral fricative?)...

>         :Peter
--
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