"Neanderthal/ ~tal"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Doug. I've found the ASCII IPA characters here also : www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/  .

  But this guy admits to having an "ideolect."  That must be an idiolect with an agenda.

  JL


"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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>Thanks for using all those phonemic symbols, Doug. Some of 'em are
>actually the same as IPA !

In case someone takes this seriously, this is ASCII IPA, which has been
around for some time. I find it good. Some regulars on this list and others
elsewhere don't like non-ASCII characters.

http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/ascii-ipa/

I don't strictly distinguish phonetic transcriptions from phonemic except
when forced to.

-- Doug Wilson


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