Pronounciation

[xod <xod@xxxx.xxxx]

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 C.D.Wright@solipsys.compulink.co.uk wrote:

> OK, so now I'm completely, totally and utterly lost. I'm an 
> Australian who is living in the UK, has lived in Lousiana, 
> California and New Jersey, and I can mimic many, perhaps 
> most pronunciations. I've been listening to the television, 
> both American and British programmes, and I still can't 
> hear how you can say that there's any similarity between 
> the vowels in "top" and "father." My experience with 
> French suggests that I have a good ear for sounds, and I 
> can't at all hear what you are suggesting is there. 
> 
> So, there's clearly something here that you can hear and 
> that I don't. The bottom line is that I still don't know 
> how to pronounce the lojban "a". I'm not trying to be 
> difficult, it just seems to come naturally! 


I have recorded myself speaking the words "top" and "father" and put it on
the web at http://www.bway.net/~xod/top/ . I was raised in NYC but I don't
have a local accent; I speak standard American English.

Let me know if this clears up the confusion, or if the sound files are not
compatible with your computer.


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