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Proper phonetics
dragonqueen - eternally free and forever untamed - insomniac extraordinaire - proprietrix of a bullwhip, badger button and (partly) of a thoroughly used sub with a purple collar. Matron of Honour. Started conversation Aug 14, 2007
Something that annoys me in english language traveller's books is the lack of proper pronouciation guidance.
Berlitz, Lonely Planet, whatever - all have the same kind of prononuciation guidance as in this entry. Rubbish! Phonetics are way much better to get the correct way of how to say a work in a foreign language.
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/IPA_chart_(C)2005.pdf
Proper phonetics
Icy North Posted Aug 19, 2007
Hi DQ - I agree entirely. I only used that pronunciation guide in this entry because the entry is about Berlitz (I think I described it as 'idiosyncratic' somewhere - a euphemism for 'downright weird') I think it was designed by an American, as it seems to fit an American English accent better than British English.
Icy
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Guess proper phonetics might be too hard for the average american brain to figure out... 
Mr DQ, native english speaker, and with a keen interest in foreign languages just now amuses me with an English-Swedish travellers guide. I hardly can figure out how to pronounce my own native tongue which I've spoken almost fifty years from that book! 
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- 1: dragonqueen - eternally free and forever untamed - insomniac extraordinaire - proprietrix of a bullwhip, badger button and (partly) of a thoroughly used sub with a purple collar. Matron of Honour. (Aug 14, 2007)
- 2: Icy North (Aug 19, 2007)
- 3: dragonqueen - eternally free and forever untamed - insomniac extraordinaire - proprietrix of a bullwhip, badger button and (partly) of a thoroughly used sub with a purple collar. Matron of Honour. (Aug 21, 2007)
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