From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 19:39:56 EST
Michael Everson wrote:
>
> At 23:59 +0100 2003-11-20, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
> >Kenneth means here: LATIN LETTER BIDENTAL PERCUSSIVE, with
> SMALL LETTER U
> >and SMALL LETTER U, where the diacritic letters would normaly
> stack on top
> >of each other, above the two stacked LATIN SMALL W letters which
> represent
> >the IPA bidental sound.
> >
> >I really don't like this bidental percussive sound. Thanks for my teeth
> >(ooch!), my language does not use it!
>
> No language does. It is used to record "disturbed speech". If you had
> no lips, for instance, you might approximate [b] with a bidental
> percussive.
:-) Waow! So people are not stupid enough to use it in a normal language.
But even if I had no lips, I would prefer using a percussive tongue and
palatal sound or glottal stop, or even my fingers on my palm to approximate
a /b/, at least for my language (French) which do not use them as
distinctive consonnantal phonemes... Also, it's quite hard to place a vowel
with such a dental percussive sound. If someone suggested to use teeth, he
may not have considered how harmfull this sound could be... better suggest
something else!
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