Re: Russian vowel <bI>

Artem Baguinski kirjoitti:

now and then english speakers would ask me to explain [1] on skype and i try and they just don't get it. and then i'd hear a glimps of it in their english and shout: yes! that was [1:::::]! but then they can't reproduce it anymore ;-)

That's exactly it: if the sound is a context-dependent allophone it's very hard to pronounce it outside of that context. I just wish I'd remember what context that was.

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..... Tommi Nieminen .... http://www.saunalahti.fi/~tommni/ ....
    Csak füvön élt a kis zebra,
    de most rákapott a zabra;
    végül is elvitték Szobra,
    ott oktatják szebbre-jobbra.
       -Devecseri Gábor-
..... tommi dot nieminen at campus dot jyu dot fi ....
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