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From: aer@alice.UucP (y)
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Subject: Re: Diacritics...
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 23:26:21 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 23:26:21 1985
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There are a few languages that use near-phonetic pronunciation- Italian among them. There is even a language hardly anyone uses that uses *pure* phonetic
notation (and, yes, diacritical marks)- Esperanto. As a matter of fact, I 
made a rule table for a speech synthesizer in Esperanto in under thirty
seconds, as all the sounds agree with something called the International
Phonetic Alphabet. The diacritical marks, (^s) serve to harden the sound of
a consonant.
Touche' to Thomas' challenge.