Friday, May 14, 2010

Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate

I had a fun kinda irresponsible day phonetically writing names in a list of people graduating tomorrow morning at 9. This was a favour for someone in Graduations - who'd been asked by the Dean who was to read the list out. There were some doozies! Lots of Chinese, a few European (I could do those), Arabic and Indian and Thai, and some unusual ones - a Basque name, Finnish, a Botswanan name - lots of fun googling and working out how a voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is best rendered into English (I decided, best left out). It was pretty easy, especially as I knew if I got it wrong, it wouldn't be any worse than if the Dean had given it a go himself.

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