Re: Pinyin question

Harlan Messinger wrote: 
Dylan Sung wrote:

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:42ECD8FA.58E4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

"Bart" == Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: 

   Bart> Lee Sau Dan wrote:
   Joachim> Ah, that is of course different from Japanese where each
   Joachim> Kanji has a lot of different readings.
   >>  Like English words "read", "tear", "object", "suspect",
   >> "permit", ...

   Bart> Don't forget "buffet"!

Does "buffet" mean different things when pronounced differently? 

No, he just put it there because he felt like typing some random
letters.
Sheesh.

I think Bart was referring to the spelling and the pronunciation being two unpredictable things. Buffet being /bufEi/ rather than /b^fIt/ if my ipa is up to it.

It's both. ['bVf @t] means to knock about. "The wind buffeted the debris."

What I liked about it was that it was a direct quote from the part that Lee Sau Dan edited out:

    >>  We already know the pronunciation.  Like how you know the
    >> pronunciations of English words "one", "women", "buffet",
    >> "isle", etc.

Bart Mathias
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