From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 18:17:11 EST
At 23:59 +0100 2003-11-20, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>Kenneth means here: LATIN LETTER BIDENTAL PERCUSSIVE, with SMALL LETTER U
>and SMALL LETTER U, where the diacritic letters would normaly stack on top
>of each other, above the two stacked LATIN SMALL W letters which represent
>the IPA bidental sound.
>
>I really don't like this bidental percussive sound. Thanks for my teeth
>(ooch!), my language does not use it!
No language does. It is used to record "disturbed speech". If you had
no lips, for instance, you might approximate [b] with a bidental
percussive.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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