On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Lazarus wrote:

> I'd expect that some sort of audio component would be neccessary to
> completely convey the phonology. Do you have any idea what a beginner might
> find best?

I know that in reading along, I've been slightly frustrated by the
inability to hear what things sound like.

Several people have pointed out several interesting samples of ON
recordings on the Web. This is fascinating and useful, and I have
listened to them. I haven't looked yet, but wonder if there isn't an
Icelandic radio station doing webcasting, which might help get closer, and
would have a constant stream of things to listen to.

I have also found several written attempts at someone trying to describe
what things sound like, in terms of descriptions, or words that sound like
it. But, ask someone from New York City and someone from Boston and
someone from Dallas to say, "Park the car around the corner." and you'll
get three very different sounding sentences. This obviously has it's
shortcomings.

What would make me very happy is to have the two combined. If someone
would record what the descriptions are trying to convey, and put those
sounds up, along with the descriptions, as samples, it would be the most
helpful, particularly for the letters which are not part of English.

I would be happy to help with this however I can; I can't record the
sounds, or probably even write the descriptions, because I don't know what
things should sound like. If someone would write up the descriptions, and
record the sounds, I would be happy to write web pages and host them.

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Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems
theory.