He started a new page on the screen and continued designing a phonetic alphabet with the expertise of his brainboosted memories. The First Team had only given them the basic consonant sounds, assuming a phonetic alphabet.Ī word would be typed in Hiragana, the fifty-one-letter Japanese phonetic alphabet, and on the screen would appear the corresponding Chinese ideogram in Kanji.
We even tried to get the idea of a phonetic alphabet across, Marie providing the sounds and I the symbols. One of the most marvellous inventions for the advancement of mankind is the phonetic alphabet, or a system of signs representing the sounds of human speech.Ībout the same time phoneticians had analyzed all human tongues into about a hundred-odd sounds, represented by the letters of a general phonetic alphabet.īut the letters representing sound in the phonetic alphabet were each capable ofvariation.īut the letters representing sound in the phonetic alphabet were each capable of variation several different ways- length, stress, pitch, rising, falling.īut the letters representing sound in the phonetic alphabet were each capable of variation several different ways - length, stress, pitch, rising, falling. To be sure, the phonetic alphabet was much less in number than the words in Basic English.
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