http://linguisticmystic.com/2006/12/22/sun-names-open-sourced-java-phoneme/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:40:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://linguisticmystic.com/2006/12/22/sun-names-open-sourced-java-phoneme/#comment-387 HomoHabilis Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:20:05 +0000 http://linguisticmystic.com/2006/12/22/sun-names-open-sourced-java-phoneme/#comment-387 Well, I first read it as "Phone-ME", and saw it as some kind of jab at the iPhone ... but then realized that this was before iPhone was announced. I have no idea what it means. Curious. Well, I first read it as “Phone-ME”, and saw it as some kind of jab at the iPhone … but then realized that this was before iPhone was announced. I have no idea what it means. Curious.

]]> http://linguisticmystic.com/2006/12/22/sun-names-open-sourced-java-phoneme/#comment-91 Unaspirated T’s from the mouth of Babes » Notes from a Linguistic Mystic Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:41:10 +0000 http://linguisticmystic.com/2006/12/22/sun-names-open-sourced-java-phoneme/#comment-91 [...] This isn’t a sound that most English speakers can distinguish (it’s not a phoneme in English), but it does happen from time to time in certain contexts, like the T in “stick” or “stop”. Most English just hear it as a “D”, and the only reason I can sometimes hear it is because I’ve done a fair amount of training and practice for my various phonetics classes. It’s different from both the English “T” and “D”, but in a very subtle way. [...] […] This isn’t a sound that most English speakers can distinguish (it’s not a phoneme in English), but it does happen from time to time in certain contexts, like the T in “stick” or “stop”. Most English just hear it as a “D”, and the only reason I can sometimes hear it is because I’ve done a fair amount of training and practice for my various phonetics classes. It’s different from both the English “T” and “D”, but in a very subtle way. […]

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