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Subject:	Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:42:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, "Robert Munafo" <munafo@gcctech.com> writes: > [...] > Anyway, if you want something better, check the simplified English SAMPA code, > described on my web page: > > http://www.mrob.com/sampa.html > > and a more authoritative source: > > http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm > > Examples: "moo-cow" would be /mu:" kaU/ and "LUGNET" is /lVg" net/. Excellent! OK, by SAMPA, it would yup definitely be /lVg" net/ (thanks!). (And, BTW, I had heard of a "glottal stop" before, but I never knew there was such a thing as a "nasal sonorant" or a "bilabial fricative"! I'm thinkin' TomMcD and JeremyS will be themselves a fine time checking this SAMPA stuff out. :-) --Todd p.s. Hey, so SAMPA is something that anyone can use to say how their name is pronounced too then, eh? Do you pronounce Munafo as /m@ nQ" f@U%/?

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		Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
(...) I don't actually know a sonorant from a fricative either, aside from what I can figure out by looking at the examples. But if Tom and Jeremy are into linguistics they probably already know more about it than we do {-; (...) You can use it if (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
(...) Fortunately, you don't expect me to pass this one up. (...) That's okay. It's a little-known fact that a sonorant is the high-pitched sqawking sound made by someone rapidly applying a rubber eraser to a pencil mark on a shaky metal table. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
This isn't a complaint, just a suggestion. If you're going to try to spell phonetics you should adopt a technically precise notation. For example, you said: (...) It's not at all clear whether you intend your syllable "MUHK" to rhyme with "book" or (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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