From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 19:46:03 EST
At 01:39 +0100 2003-11-21, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>But even if I had no lips, I would prefer using a percussive tongue and
>palatal sound or glottal stop, or even my fingers on my palm to approximate
>a /b/, at least for my language (French) which do not use them as
>distinctive consonnantal phonemes... Also, it's quite hard to place a vowel
>with such a dental percussive sound. If someone suggested to use teeth, he
>may not have considered how harmfull this sound could be... better suggest
>something else!
And there was a great weeping, and a gnashing of teeth....
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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