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Re: CHAT: A flat minor (was: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING))

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 19:01
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:31:37PM +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> Except when |th| denotes biphonemic /th/. Beethoven's name would be an > example; according to the pronunciation guides I can find, it's > ['be:tho:f@n].
[snip] That's interesting. Esp. with the [f]. So apparently the Chinese pronunciation isn't too far off: [pEj t_hwO f@n] (the [p] here being, of course, unaspirated, and would sound closest to [b]). T -- Too many people seek freedom but are enslaved by their seeking.

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