Aha! I hadn’t noticed the ch = tsh thing before. Very cool! I can totally feel it in my mouth. And yeah, I can’t make the sound without doing the double letter thing. Huh!
And yeah, lots of letters have this vocal/non flip. Like d is vocalized t, z is vocalized s, etc. Sometimes I wondered about having some kind of “And this is vocalized” accent mark to sort of free up letters.
Heh. To make it all easy to type, I guess one could just use capitalization for vocalization. Skipping the letters that only make sense vocalized of course (like ‘n’ and vowels).
In English, most unvoiced consonants whose voiced counterparts are in-repertoire non-allophones are aspirated and their voiced counterparts non-aspirated, which seems to make most of the difference in some brief experiments with whispering. Fricatives are the hardest and seem to rely on subtle articulatory differences instead, but this isn’t a blinded test, so…
Aha! I hadn’t noticed the ch = tsh thing before. Very cool! I can totally feel it in my mouth. And yeah, I can’t make the sound without doing the double letter thing. Huh!
And yeah, lots of letters have this vocal/non flip. Like d is vocalized t, z is vocalized s, etc. Sometimes I wondered about having some kind of “And this is vocalized” accent mark to sort of free up letters.
Heh. To make it all easy to type, I guess one could just use capitalization for vocalization. Skipping the letters that only make sense vocalized of course (like ‘n’ and vowels).
then eFrithiNG luks afl.
:-D
Fun fact: When whispering, everything is unvoiced and you have to figure out from context which sounds are meant to be voiced.
In English, most unvoiced consonants whose voiced counterparts are in-repertoire non-allophones are aspirated and their voiced counterparts non-aspirated, which seems to make most of the difference in some brief experiments with whispering. Fricatives are the hardest and seem to rely on subtle articulatory differences instead, but this isn’t a blinded test, so…