Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ... Date: 26 Jul 2024 14:34:21 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 14 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 6pxtYeOO+zBd42Z6StpJmQXawn8hApwk0q0hIIqX5noXzf Cancel-Lock: sha1:8QSufLSKbHcUxO892MqnTnZyaSw= sha256:7Ehwr2Z1Fh2OZ2mImea2QMDUg9h72YLZfJwU6cVnhh0= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2411 Antonio Marques wrote or quoted: >So you were trying to do a 'fully' precise transcription of _router_ in >(some dialect of) american, is that it? I wanted to give a phonetic description with the same level of detail as Wells or Canepari. (But I was kind of stuck because a lot of Canepari's special symbols aren't in Unicode.) ("Full" precision isn't really possible in my opinion.) >The hypothesis that he didn't know the half length marker is >just not tenable. In the meantime, I submitted his 2018 post in full, so now every reader can figure this out for himself!