[lojban-beginners] Re: Pronouncing "a"

[Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru>]

On 05.12.2006, 6:49, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> Nathaniel Krause wrote:
>> Danny,
>> 
>> Examples like this are stymied by regional variations in the English 
>> accent. The "a" sounds in father and in hat are quite distinct in 
>> American English, and I would have thought they were in English English, 
>> too; but, as for Glaswegian, that is a bit beyond my ken. On the other 
>> hand, the "a" in father and the "o" in top are indeed exactly the same 
>> in American English, but this a specifically American feature, so the 
>> example of "top" is not relevant to other English speakers. Sorry about 
>> that. Although many Lojbanists are Americans, "Lojban for Beginners" in 
>> particular should be free of Americocentrism, since its two authors are 
>> Australian and English.

> I'm not sure about "hat", or Glaswegian, but I know an Englishman, and
> he pronounces as "a" in "father" a lot of a's I pronounce as "a" in "ash".

Strange that you all speak about phonemes by providing examples how
words are read in different dialects of English. Why not use IPA or at
least voice recording?

mi'e .ianis