Re: New Try from a New Guy

One observation I have related to this, is that the IPA chart
(http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ipachart_vowels.html) doesn't have
representations for exactly my pronunciations. For example, I think my [e]
is more open than the sound example given on this page. In fact, none of the
sound examples sound completely "right" to my ears, but they're close enough
that I can recognize them. Is Californian English officially considered a
separate dialect? :)

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Michael David Martin, Master Mason
Temecula/Catalina Island Lodge #524
Free & Accepted Masons of California


----- Original Message -----
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
> On another note, it seems that although most languages have a schwa vowel,
> there seems to be different tendencies as to its actual value. For
> example, in North America, the schwa sound tends towards [6], whereas in
> Malaysia, it tends towards [@\]. Incidentally, probably because I'm biased
> towards the latter, the schwa in Ebisedian is [@\].
>

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