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Re: Newbie alert...

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 20:55
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Bjorn Kristinsson wrote:

> >I only wish I could say I were studying Icelandic. <rueful look> > >Er...skoll? Or is that Norwegian only, or...? > > *raises his bottle of Thule beer* Skál!! :D /'skaul/ (if this doesn't come > through properly, that's Skal, an accent on that 'a') > Could someone point me to an ASCII IPA? I'm not sure if that's transcribed > correctly :P
Skál! <repeating with slightly more confidence> http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/ascii-ipa.html The URL above has ASCII IPA in several systems. I think most people use Kirschenbaum or Sampa, leaning toward the latter; I use the former because I haven't *yet* done phonologies that Sampa is easier for.
> >Yoon Ha Lee, apologizing for her lack of knowledge of other languages > > Ehh... eh..... eh... sayonara? :P > > Bjorn Kristinsson, ditto with a 'his' replacing 'her' :)
That's Japanese, not Korean, but since I'm working on my Japanese...arigatoo gozaimasu. Informal Korean for hi/bye is "anyeong" [anj@N] (@ is schwa, N is "ng" or the velar nasal), if that helps. Sayonara! YHL