Re: New Try from a New Guy

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From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: New Try from a New Guy


> Emaelivpahr Joe Fatula:
> >/a/ as in father
> >/A/ as in cot
> >/O/ as in caught
> >/@/ as in cut
>
> Arrrg!  I hate vowels.  They're impossible to compare by using "standard"
> English words.  As far as I can tell from listening to my own
> pronunciations, "father," "cot," and "caught" all rhyme perfectly.  Only
> "cut" sounds different.
>
> I hate it when foreign-language books use English words to show how vowels
> should sound...
>
>
> --
> Arthaey
I definitely agree with you there.  If I were to write a foreign-language
instruction book for English-speakers, I would include some example words in
English (and any other familiar languages) that have the sound, and an IPA
representation for those who are ready to move on.  Besides, there might be
someone (like me a few years back) who's interested in being
linguistics-literate, and gets introduced to phonetics this way.