Re: CHAT: IPA Question

Tristan scripsit:

> >>You, presumably, haven't heard of one George W. Bush, or the people who
> >>voted him in.
> >>
> >Who, us?  We didn't vote for him.
> >
> You could've, I couldn't've.
I personally could have.  The American people did not.

> >Hey, I've managed to cope with [kur\dZEt] for "zucchini".
> >
> [kur\dZEt]? Sounds... odd...
Conventionally spelled "courgette", a green variety of squash.

> >Americans know what fish-and-chips is, [...]
> You do? Rumor has it that you didn't.
http://www.franchisegator.com/cgi-bin/profile.php?key=73&f_type=11
I say nothing about Arthur Treacher's quality, but I dare say that most
Americans have at least heard of it, thanks to TV advertising.  Fish and
chips is also available in various restaurants at more upscale prices.

> Rumor also has it that we have
> different ideas on what a pizza is, but I've never been able to confirm
> that. Describe a vegetarian pizza from the base up.
(I suppose you mean "without meat" rather than strictly vegetarian.)

Crust, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese.  It should rightly be cooked in a
coal-fired brick oven, but permits to burn coal are not easily obtained
these days, and most pizzerias are using gas-fired ovens now.

> >North American /&/ is essentially [E_A], that is [E] with advanced
> >tongue root.
> >
> What's an advanced tongue root?
Well, the root of the tongue is where it's connected to the rest of you,
and a sound with ATR has the tongue stretched and thinned so that the
root is moved forward in the mouth.  Retracted tongue root, RTR, is the
reverse, and is the same (AFAIK) as pharyngealization.

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John Cowan      jcowan@reutershealth.com        http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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