Re: Newbie alert...

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