Comments on: Urdu in English http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english Language in a word Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Da Commentah http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-710 Da Commentah Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:21:50 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-710 Hell yeah! This post sounds really good. Reading your blog is useful and interesting. Keep it that way. Hell yeah! This post sounds really good. Reading your blog is useful and interesting. Keep it that way.

]]> By: Petr Roesel http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-456 Petr Roesel Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:51:54 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-456 In vain. I wanted to say or write, that the OO in RHOOSHdi is the same vowel as in the word _moon_ and that the vowel in _book_ is respelled by _uu_. Yagh! In vain.

I wanted to say or write, that the OO in RHOOSHdi is the same vowel as in the word _moon_ and that the vowel in _book_ is respelled by _uu_.
Yagh!

]]> By: Petr Roesel http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-455 Petr Roesel Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:49:25 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-455 They obviously do. So here is my text again, this time with the angle brackets in commas: at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/phonetics.doc I found a phonetic respelling guide which is used by the BBC under the auspicies of Catherine Sangster. The letter digraph '' represents the pronunciation of the vowel in ''. Applied to '' this will mean that the first syllable of his last name contains a long u-vowel and not a short one as Graham suggests by using the word ''. The vowel in the latter word is respelled ''. They obviously do. So here is my text again, this time with the angle brackets in commas:

at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/phonetics.doc
I found a phonetic respelling guide which is used by the BBC under the auspicies of Catherine Sangster. The letter digraph ” represents the pronunciation of the vowel in ”. Applied to ” this will mean that the first syllable of his last name contains a long u-vowel and not a short one as Graham suggests by using the word ”. The vowel in the latter word is respelled ”.

]]> By: Petr Roesel http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-454 Petr Roesel Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:45:55 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-454 In my previous comment all opening and closing angle brackets are not shown, most probably because angle brackets are part of the html code Let me see if they show up if I include them in inverted commas '<' In my previous comment all opening and closing angle brackets are not shown, most probably because angle brackets are part of the html code

Let me see if they show up if I include them in inverted commas ‘<’

]]> By: Petr Roesel http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-453 Petr Roesel Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:43:28 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-453 Re: pruh-nun-si-AY-shuhn of Salman Rushdie at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/phonetics.doc I found a phonetic respelling guide which is used by the BBC under the auspicies of Catherine Sangster. The letter digraph represents the pronunciation of the vowel in . Applied to this will mean that the first syllable of his last name contains a long u-vowel and not a short one as Graham suggests by using the word . The vowel in the latter word is respelled . It takes a spell to understand respelling system, doesn't it? Petr Re: pruh-nun-si-AY-shuhn of Salman Rushdie

at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/phonetics.doc
I found a phonetic respelling guide which is used by the BBC under the auspicies of Catherine Sangster. The letter digraph represents the pronunciation of the vowel in . Applied to this will mean that the first syllable of his last name contains a long u-vowel and not a short one as Graham suggests by using the word . The vowel in the latter word is respelled .
It takes a spell to understand respelling system, doesn’t it?

Petr

]]> By: Petr Roesel http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-439 Petr Roesel Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:37:24 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-439 Thanks for your detailed description Thanks for your detailed description

]]> By: Abdul http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-435 Abdul Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:55:11 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/urdu-in-english#comment-435 Very interesting to see how names are pronounced by speakers of other languages. Consider the French name Durand when pronounced in English as ['djuarInd] (dj is the affricate in John). I heard a newsreader pronouncing the place name Diyarbakr (also spelt Diyarbakir) as [diyaar b@kiar] (-kiar rhymes with "here"). I think this is inevitable. You can't ask people to consult pronouncing dictionary whenever they come across a foreign name. Besides, if they make an attempt to pronounce them in a "foreign" way this may sound pedantic and pompous. Imagine someone saying: My mobile phone is [zi:m@ns] instead of [si:m@ns] (for Siemens)"! Very interesting to see how names are pronounced by speakers of other languages. Consider the French name Durand when pronounced in English as ['djuarInd] (dj is the affricate in John). I heard a newsreader pronouncing the place name Diyarbakr (also spelt Diyarbakir) as [diyaar b@kiar] (-kiar rhymes with “here”). I think this is inevitable. You can’t ask people to consult pronouncing dictionary whenever they come across a foreign name. Besides, if they make an attempt to pronounce them in a “foreign” way this may sound pedantic and pompous. Imagine someone saying: My mobile phone is [zi:m@ns] instead of [si:m@ns] (for Siemens)”!

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