hello every body,
it'sreally great help finding Ur notes here on pronunciation, still it's really starnge to me as i've never been familiar to the symbols you guys are using,
hey, can i ask U to use the standard symbols so that eveyone seeking help can get ...
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<<it'sreally great help finding Ur notes here on pronunciation, still it's really starnge to me as i've never been familiar to the symbols you guys are using>>
Hello :) What people usually use here is a phonetic transcription system known as X-SAMPA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA
Which is a form of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) that's modified so you don't need special fonts to see or type it. Here's an article on IPA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA
<<hey, can i ask U to use the standard symbols so that eveyone seeking help can get ... >>
Well, the reason that people use phonetic symbols is that they're much more precise than orthography. Orthography is too vague (whether it's English, Spanish, Latin, German, or Korean orthography, etc.--it doesn't matter) and confusing to accurately describe sounds so that's why we resort to using standard international phonetic transcription systems. Hopefully those articles will familiarize you with how they work--if you have questions feel free to ask, and those of us familiar with X-SAMPA and IPA will surely be glad to help :)
Nobody's responded to me about "think"-reduction. :-( Does anybody have it?
The default pronunciation of "think" for me is [TINk]. For instance, in the sentence, "That's what I think", I would always pronounce it with the [k] at the end. But when "think" introduces a subordinate clause, I often pronounce it as [TIN]. For instance, in rapid speech I would pronounce "I think it's correct" as [aITINItsk@r\Ekt].