Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 18:06 |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
> [beɪtsɪŋ] is probably the closest pronunciation you can get using English
> phonemes to the actual Mandarin reading, especially taking into account the
> aspiration of the English /p/.
Thanks. :) But I would prefer to use the Mandarin phonemes; I'm just
bad at pronouncing some of them. :) I can handle the initial
unaspirated [p], but [ɕ], with or without the [t], eludes me.
(Actually, I don't even see it on the IPA chart; I'm assuming it's the
same sound represented by [ç]...)
Isn't pronouncing [tɕ] as [ts] considered an effeminate speech pattern?
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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