Ancient History Question

Padraic Brown wrote:

Indeed we tried -- but sometimes that doesn't get us too far. Even
trying to use the IPA didn't do the trick!

Padraic

To me, IPA means India Pale Ale. 8-)

Jud wrote:

Padraic Brown wrote:

Indeed we tried -- but sometimes that doesn't get us too far. Even
trying to use the IPA didn't do the trick!

Padraic

To me, IPA means India Pale Ale. 8-)

And, did that do the trick for you? g

Christian

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:22:03 +0200, "gogu"
wrote:

No, the problem is you're trying to give me English spellings, and
they're not jiving and I've got no frickin clew how you pronounce
English words,


Well, more or less like you I suppose;-)


Reading your responses from before, I would tend to doubt this!

Probably.

to say nothing of Greek words (modern or ancient)! So,
on this point at least, I'm going to bid adieu to pronunciation
matters.


OK, but you can't say I didn't try:-)


Indeed we tried -- but sometimes that doesn't get us too far. Even
trying to use the IPA didn't do the trick!

True.
But just like in the sports, trying is important, not necessarily wining;-)

rgrds


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On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:12:42 +0100, lid (Christian
Feldhaus) wrote:

Jud wrote:

Padraic Brown wrote:

Indeed we tried -- but sometimes that doesn't get us too far. Even
trying to use the IPA didn't do the trick!

Padraic

To me, IPA means India Pale Ale. 8-)

And, did that do the trick for you? g

Ha! In this context it means "International Phonetic Alphabet". It
assigns a single symbol to any given sound. In theory, if you know
which symbol goes with which sound you can transcribe an utterance in
another language. A third person should be able to read it aloud with
a reasonably high degree of confidence that a native speaker will
understand. It's not perfect by any means (doesn't account for accent,
for example), but as a general pronunciation guide, it's really quite
good.

India Pale Ale indeed! Prefer cyder myself, but I don't think that
would do the trick either!

Padraic

Christian

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Padraic Brown wrote:

To me, IPA means India Pale Ale. 8-)

And, did that do the trick for you? g

Ha! In this context it means "International Phonetic Alphabet". It
assigns a single symbol to any given sound. In theory, if you know
which symbol goes with which sound you can transcribe an utterance in
another language.

Yep, I know - that is what most dictionaries here use, and we had IPA at
school. (Well, I can read it but not really write it.) But I liked the
ale variety g.

Christian