On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 05:22, Minimiscience<minimiscie...@gmail.com> wrote: > de'i li 20 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. morphemeadd...@wmconnect.com .fy. cusku > zoi skamyxatra. >> So will lots of other people who use the terms for different things, >> including English speakers who use it for the different between the two main >> sounds of "c" and "g" (hard = k/g, soft = s/j). > .skamyxatra > > I wasn't using "hard" and "soft" as stand-ins for "voiced" and "unvoiced"; I > was simply trying to describe the different pronunciations of English "th" to > someone I had no reason to presume was already familiar with the technical > aspects of phonetics.
And it was pointed out that your use of those terms possibly caused more confusion than had you simply omitted them entirely. > How do you think I should have described [θ] and [ð]? As {"th" as in "thing"} and {"th" as in "this"}, for example. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>