Message-Id: <m0tG6C9-0000ZTC@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi>
Date:         Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:33:59 GMT
Reply-To:     G R A Dunbar <G.R.A.Dunbar@EEE.RGU.AC.UK>
Sender:       Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
From:         G R A Dunbar <G.R.A.Dunbar@EEE.RGU.AC.UK>
Organization: The Robert Gordon University
Subject:      Re: buffer vowel
To:           Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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I agree - I think.  But phonetics is outwith my area.  Can anyone
point me to information on how the phonetic alphabet is represented
in ASCII as it is below?

(Fatuous PS: does this mean that people cannot lisp (lithp (?)) in
languages with no "th" :-)

> > When I'm speaking Bulgarian, I always call the river that flows
> > through London /'temza/.  It's not that I find the /T/ sound hard
> > to pronounce (and I have no problem saying /D@ 'TeImz/ when I'm
> > speaking English), [...]
>
> Am I missing some subtle joke here?  As an iggerant American, I was always
> taught that "Thames" in that context is /tEmz/, although there are towns
> in the U.S. that are called /TeImz/.

        Regards,
            Graeme

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