From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Dec 05 16:19:07 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:19:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrkV9-0000x5-DB for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:19:07 -0800 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235] helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrkV1-0000wv-6Z for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:19:05 -0800 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id r28so20536nza for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:18:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=aWfRJYO9TQv7DlG5rkDg0wAcaFuL3wOgdfoD0IayflZ2yn0Xua0VMwWKvQH28atNOWhfxxNfOJob9kGk7Cw4GqKckfyJVt+DGOQ7zddL5uAvGe8xQnfJow9XEvQa6HqgCxjRmKHePv+G0JlFlmcWIX+bd+0ut+SkLH64Bh65JPE= Received: by 10.78.204.7 with SMTP id b7mr86091hug.1165364337477; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:18:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.136.4 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:18:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:18:57 -0800 From: "Theodore Reed" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Pronouncing "a" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_16380_166182.1165364337361" References: X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-archive-position: 3811 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ted.reed@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_16380_166182.1165364337361 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 12/5/06, Alex Martini wrote: > > Are you asking for help with IPA, or asking if people can read it so you > know if you will be understood using it? > > I can read most of IPA, but I often have to look at a chart like the one > you pasted into the email to remember what symbol is what. The only really > difficult thing is learning the technical terms for the parts of a sound -- > fricative, plosice, voiced, rounded, etc. > > mu'o mi'e .aleks. > > Someone asked why not just show the values in IPA instead of using example words. So I pasted the IPA table. -- Theodore Reed (treed/bancus) www.surreality.us ------=_Part_16380_166182.1165364337361 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 12/5/06, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
Are you asking for help with IPA, or asking if people can read it so you know if you will be understood using it?

I can read most of IPA, but I often have to look at a chart like the one you pasted into the email to remember what symbol is what. The only really difficult thing is learning the technical terms for the parts of a sound -- fricative, plosice, voiced, rounded, etc.

mu'o mi'e .aleks.


Someone asked why not just show the values in IPA instead of using example words. So I pasted the IPA table.

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