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(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)

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[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

It should be /ɹ/ or /ɚ/ instead of /r/.

[-] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

/r/ is perfectly acceptable to represent that phoneme in a broad transcription. Would only be a problem had ~~he~~ they wrote [r].

[-] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

yeah true. thx. i was just a bit puzzeled bc i assumed [ ].

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

This reminds me Mark Hale using emojis for broad transcription of Marshallese vowels. That was hilarious (and genius - it's a great way to tell people "focus on their contrast dammit").

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Well, the question was in []. I responded with // because I'm not enough of an expert to attempt narrow transcriptions 🙂.

[-] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

That is also a fair point.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Usually I wouldn't bother, but seeing as this is a linguistics community; it's a lot more inclusive to use the singular "they" rather than "he" if you don't know the pronouns one uses.

Signed, not a he.

[-] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't necessarily agree with your argumentation generally speaking (both the generic masculine pronoun and singular they are fine in my opinion), but you do literally have your pronouns right there, so I will admit I could/should have avoided the issue anyhow. Sorry about that.

Edit: Oh, also, Weißbier, to answer your post's question.

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