Re: More questions (was Re: General RFI)

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Andrew Smith wrote:

> /E/ /&/ and /@/ all have IPA values as far as I know, so I'm wondering how
> to pronounce *.
> 
> Now, where did I leave that list.

Ah.  Okay.  In Kirshenbaum's system
(http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html),
which is probably the most widely used on the net, it's a
voiced alveolar flap (fishhook "r").

In X-SAMPA (ftp://pitch.phon.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sam/ipasam-x.ps) it has no
meaning.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
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