Re: CHAT: IPA Question
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 16:52 |
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:58:37AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> H. S. Teoh scripsit:
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> > Really. I thought it was the obligatory monthly English pronunciation
> > flamewar on CONLANG. :-) I mean, after the unfortunate departure of our
> > last auxlanger, how would we otherwise fill our monthly quorum of flames?
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> Flaming, what flaming? Not a word of vituperation here.
Nevermind, it was just a lame reference to past your-English-is-wrong,
my-English-is-right flamewars that we've had (which I've mostly ignored).
> > And *I'll* [wAlk @krAs D@ stri:t &n g&t sVm hAt tSAkl@t]. :-)
>
> What, you have [l] in "walk"? Tres bizarre, indeed.
It surfaces from time to time; when I speak fast, it drops out.
> (I like to pronounce "bizarre" (normally /bI"zAr\/ in an exaggerated way
> as [bi"zAR:::])
[snip]
Hmm, that's a [bI"za:r] way to pronounce "bizarre". :-P
T
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