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Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:24:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> [...]
> http://www.mrob.com/sampa.html
> [...]
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm
> [...]
> 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. :-)
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 {-;
> p.s. Hey, so SAMPA is something that anyone can use to say how their name
> is pronounced too then, eh?
You can use it if you give a reference. I don't think many people use SAMPA yet
so it's good to point to a description. And, yes, it works well for telling
English speakers how to pronounce names. As you can see, the phoneme set
includes a fairly complete set of sounds, like /2/, /x/, /Y/, and /C/ that
aren't native to English. And if a sound doesn't have a symbol, then you
probably won't get an English speaker to pronounce it accurately anyway.
> Do you pronounce Munafo as /m@ nQ" f@U%/?
Close -- it's /mu: nQ" f@U%/. The name is of eastern Mediterranean origin, as
you probably guessed, otherwise you would have said /mV" n@% f@U/ or something
like that.
I'll sign my name by demonstrating that I drop the 't':
- /rQ" b@r? mu: nQ" f@U%/
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