A Conversation for How to Speak Brummie

X-SAMPA

Post 1

gareis

Could you provide an X-SAMPA transcription for that? English dialects are so divergent that I have little idea how to pronounce your phrases, even in that ad-hoc phonetic notation.

/kUd ju p_hr\oUvAjd &n Eks:&mp@ tr\&nskrIptS@n foUr T&t/

~Gareis


X-SAMPA

Post 2

gareis

Here's my best assessment of that:
/Ai/ or /Aj/ or /@i/ or /@j/ or /Vi/ or /Vj/ -> /oi/ or /oj/.
/@/ or /V/ -> /U/.
/oU/ -> /o/.
/ej/ -> /Ej/.
/A@/ -> /&/ (ae ligature).
/I/ -> /i/.
/i/ -> /ej/ (final).
/r/ -> /r\/. [1]
/N/ -> /Ng/.
/h/ -> 0
/t/ -> 0 (final).

~Gareis

[1] I used /r\/ for the American |r|, but it's an alveolar trill really.


X-SAMPA

Post 3

stof


Time to take your medicine again.

Blue and Red ones this time.

AND SWALLOW THEM!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!


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