British Dialects Book

[Wendalyn Nichols]

Chiming in late, due to posting problems: since IPA constitutes
"dictionary-style definitions" for pretty much the whole planet other than
the US, can we distinguish between "phonemic" (US-style) and "phonetic"
prons rather than assuming we're normative and the rest of the linguistic
world is abnormal?

Winking, but not n jest,

Wendalyn Nichols

At 05:41 AM 9/15/02 -0400, Frank Abate wrote:
In reply to what Sali says below, what makes linguists abnormal is that they
use IPA without complaint, AND want others to do the same.

Partly in jest,

Frank Abate

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At 05:45 PM 9/14/2002 -0500, Matthew Gordon wrote:

 >The second edition of Trudgill's book includes IPA as well as the
 >dictionary-type respellings making it useful to linguists as well as
 >normal people.
      I did not know linguistics made its practitioners abnormal! I once
heard this kind of distinction from the manager of an apartment building
where I stayed at the LSA Institute at UIUC (1999). He said that linguists
were only on my floor and a second one. All the other floors were occupied
by "normal people." I stared at him wondering what made linguists abnormal.

Sali.