--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2005, at 2:26 AM, cardemaister wrote: > > > *) Funny, but that would be very difficult to phrase > > correctly in English because of the name of the letter, > > that *occasinally* represents the sound in question. > > (But, OTOH, can't think of any other letter that would > > represent that sound in English.) > > It's name starts with the same sound that's the first > > sound, in English, of the Jewish rabbi that was the founder of the > > religion that's most popular amongst Caucasian(?) people, > > although in the name of the rabbi that sound is represent > > by a different letter. But in "slangish" style writing > > it may also be presented by that very letter, that > > at least at the end of English word, at least most > > of the time, represents that sound that was a bit difficult > > for me to reproduce when I first heard my mantra... ~:0 > > Well you know Sanskrit, which HK transliterated letter would it be? > > FWIW all the basic TM mantras end in the bindu-chandra which is usually > written as a crescent and a dot:
I must confess that I'm not sure how bindu-candra is pronounced in various "fonotactic environments". My gut feeling is it can only appear in pausa or before a vowel. I think in pausa it's pronounced as an (extended?) 'm'. But perhaps it is actually pronounced approximately like the last sound of the word that describes the sound of a telephone when someone is tryiNG to contact you by it. In English two consonant characters are used to indicate the presense of that sound at the end of a word. The sound my TM instructor emphasized was "almost like" the sound indicated by the letter that is at the beginning of the word when the rabbi's name is misspelled in a mild word of curse, but its phonetic value is actually the value of the sound at the beginning of a word that you usually use when you ask someone to hand something to you. :o the unification of the sun and the > moon, the transcendent. This sound is attributed to a chakra at the tip > of the epiglottis. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
