jal (11:56:19)
Mirrorbird, looking for "elision"? Or just "reduction"?

mirrorbird (11:55:51)
Rap: for example, how americans pronounce /t/ like [d] very often (it sounds like "tomado" not "tomato")

Rapture (11:55:39)
the elegant elephant

Rapture (11:55:32)
yes entN sounds more elegant.

Rapture (11:55:20)
aah ok

d_vibe (11:55:15)
I remember how stunned I was when we got the Amiga 500. Before that I had only seen Zx Spectrum graphics, and some C64 graphics

mirrorbird (11:55:02)
that means: it's not a part of a language, but it's part of just how we make noises

Rapture (11:54:53)
ah yes

mirrorbird (11:54:43)
however it's a phonetic phenomenon, not a phonemic one (lots of ph)

mirrorbird (11:54:30)
in IPA (the way that you write down a pronunciation like /ˈɹaptʃə/ there is a way to write what you are saying

MED (Cyril Pereira)

zoi

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