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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <3k1f06$3a2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <795240879snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <3ka1fb$q6t@due.unit.no>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:58:23 GMT
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In article <3ka1fb$q6t@due.unit.no> jardar@nvg.unit.no (Jardar Eggesb Abrahamsen) writes:
>Better: 1 letter = 1 phoneme
><c> = /c/ = [ts]

That is an IPA artifact.  An affricate is not the same thing as a
fricative preceded by a homorganic stop.  Actually, even in IPA one
can write an affricate with a tie or as a ligature, and for the [ts]
affricate the slashed _c_ is not infrequent (though I think that is
American usage, not IPA).

-- 
`"Na, na ... ah mean, *no wey*, wi aw due respect, ma lady," stammers Joe.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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