Re: CHAT: IPA Question

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> OK, I only have a faint clue what a velarised 'l' might be. I don't think
> I've encountered it in English. Not that I noticed, anyway.
It's so pervasive in English, especially in N.A., you probably don't
notice.  You can hear a clear (non-velar) l in RP before front vowels.

> Oh yeah, we're [a:t@ g&tS@]. :-P
I make that [au4@ gEtS@].

> "American"? LOL... obviously you don't realize that Californians can't
> understand Bostonians, and both can't understand Texans. And the Kanucks
> among whom I live despise all three. :-)
Despise is one thing, fail to understand is another.  Cultivated Bostonians
don't sound like cultivated Texans, and don't want to, and vice versa
(a thing which non-anglophones have trouble grasping, with their hierarchically
arranged social dialects), but short of Gullah or its variant, basilectal
AAVE, you have a lot of trouble finding two native North Americans who can't
understand each others' dialects.

> [snip]
> > Tristan. (well, that was fun, wasn't it? Take any of it personally and,
> > if I ever raise the funds to find you, you probably should see a doctor
> > afterwards. People who take humor personally deserve what's coming to
> > them.)
>
> Personal? LOL... I was just [p_hleIn= @lo:N wiDja]. :-P
My daughter says [p_hleIn= widZ@].

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