In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use the
combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result:
... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/ like most Americans.
At 1:15, it occurs in "many" [mɛ̃ɾi] (I've used "ɛ̃" for nasalized
[ɛ], which would properly be written with the tilde over the vowel).
She does the same thing elsewhere in "lovin' is so soft"
[lʌvɪ̃ɾɪzsosɔft].
As displayed in my original plain-text message and in the composition
for this plain-text message, the tildes are displaced one character to
the right. My pref for plain-text messages specifies the font Courier
New; AFAIK this is a TrueType font.
However, when I SHIFT-Reply to reply in HTML (see my next post), the
tildes are correctly placed over the respective vowels. My default font
for HTML messages is Times New Roman; AFAIK this is also a TrueType
font. In the same way, if I copy/paste the text above to an MS Word
file, the tilde is correctly placed.
Anyone know if this is just me, or is it SeaMonkey, or some problem with
the fonts themselves? I can't be sure what my recipients are seeing.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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