XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Antonio Marques  wrote or quoted:   
   >Stefan Ram  wrote:   
   >>>ˈɹʷʊˑuɿ ᵊɹ̩   
   >>>and this guy was like, "I don't think that 'u' is stressed!".   
   >(Sorry, but I can't make sense either of the characters you wrote above   
      
     Here's the whole shebang in ASCII:   
      
   MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE - meaning the next syllable is stressed   
   LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R - to me that a bunched American r   
   MODIFIER LETTER SMALL W - that r is rounded! (because it's initial)   
   LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON - open "u"   
   MODIFIER LETTER HALF TRIANGULAR COLON - that open "u" is half-lenghtened   
   LATIN SMALL LETTER U - a [u]   
   LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK - American "t" of "router"   
   SPACE - I used it to end the syllable, similar to how Wells uses it   
   MODIFIER LETTER SMALL SCHWA - meaning some speakers insert a schwa here   
   LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R - another bunched American r   
   COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW - which is syllabic   
      
     . The "IPA" used above ain't your nana's brew - it's more   
     like a souped-up Wells model with some Canepari flair and my   
     own secret sauce thrown in. But hey, that "half-long" symbol?   
     That's straight-up textbook IPA, no bells and whistles!   
      
     PS: I ran a Python script to spit out the Unicode names from the IPA   
     string. The script was cooked up by a chatbot after I hit it with a   
     quick description of what I needed. Took me like a hot second to type   
     the description, way less time than if I'd written the script myself!   
      
   import unicodedata   
      
   def print_unicode_names( input_string ):   
       for char in input_string:   
           unicode_name = unicodedata.name( char, "Unknown" )   
           print( unicode_name )   
      
   sample_string = "INSERT IPA HERE"   
   print_unicode_names( sample_string )   
      
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