Michael Everson wrote: > > At 23:59 +0100 2003-11-20, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > >Kenneth means here: LATIN LETTER BIDENTAL PERCUSSIVE, with > SMALL LETTER U > >and SMALL LETTER U, where the diacritic letters would normaly > stack on top > >of each other, above the two stacked LATIN SMALL W letters which > represent > >the IPA bidental sound. > > > >I really don't like this bidental percussive sound. Thanks for my teeth > >(ooch!), my language does not use it! > > No language does. It is used to record "disturbed speech". If you had > no lips, for instance, you might approximate [b] with a bidental > percussive.
:-) Waow! So people are not stupid enough to use it in a normal language. But even if I had no lips, I would prefer using a percussive tongue and palatal sound or glottal stop, or even my fingers on my palm to approximate a /b/, at least for my language (French) which do not use them as distinctive consonnantal phonemes... Also, it's quite hard to place a vowel with such a dental percussive sound. If someone suggested to use teeth, he may not have considered how harmfull this sound could be... better suggest something else! __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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