"long" and "short" vowels

[Mark Mandel]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Bowie<db.list at pmpkn.net> wrote:
> From: Â  Â Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
>> [more of his usual igno-ranting]
> Tom, please, *please*, PLEASE go get a copy of Peter Ladefoged's _A
> Course in Phonetics_ and give it a good read-through. It's short, and
> someone like you who's interested in the sounds of human speech should
> be able to hang with it, even the more technical bits--and it would
> really help avoid these talking-past-each-other moments. So, please?

Again, I suggest ignoring and killfiling him if he doesn't.

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Mark Mandel

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