Timeline for How to pronounce the names of supersymmetric partner particles of fermions
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| Feb 7, 2019 at 3:13 | history | edited | mic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fix IPA
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 13:38 | vote | accept | mic | ||
| Apr 26, 2016 at 15:01 | comment | added | herisson | @PeterShor: Interesting! Actually, the author seems to distinguish them by vowel length: /ɒ/ is transcribed as /ɔ/, and /ɔː/ is transcribed as /ɔː/. He says the scheme is based on that used in Daniel Jones' English Pronouncing Dictionary. So I was wrong; the actual transcription here is in fact unambiguously the "lot" vowel, as usual. | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 14:31 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @sumelic: looking through the book you linked to, it appears that the author merges the British vowels /ɒ/ and /ɔ/. The only place I know where this happens is in the traditional Boston dialect (party = /pɑti/ and potty = /pɔti/). But maybe some Australians do this, too. | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 7:17 | answer | added | michael_timofeev | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 0:53 | history | edited | mic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed IPA of fermion
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 0:30 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @sumelic: The standard pronunciation in the U.S. is /-ɑn/. Electrawn and fermiyawn just sound wrong to me. The author of book you found currently lives in Australia ... maybe they pronounce them differently there, or maybe he's just confused about how non-Australians pronunce them. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 20:40 | comment | added | mic | okay to be honest I'm not very good at finding the IPA for words | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 19:36 | comment | added | Lambie | Well, I dunno. that symbol is for the s in English. So, I don't see a difference then between the two ones posted by the OP. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 19:31 | comment | added | herisson | "Sparticle" is apparently short for "super-particle," so I guess a third theoretical pronunciation for "sfermion" would be /ˈsuːpɚˌfɝmiɑn/ (US) or /ˈs(j)uːpəˌfɜːmɪɒn/ (British). I haven't found pronunciations with /ɔn/ listed for "fermion" in any dictionary. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 19:22 | comment | added | herisson | @Lambie: I think the idea is that it might be pronounced as the letter "s," like how "X-ray" starts with /ɛks/. That kind of pronunciation becomes tempting when faced with things like "sstrange" or "sbottom." | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 19:13 | comment | added | Lambie | Nothing that begins with an S in English is pronounced with ɛs. Do you speak a Latin-based language?? Because Spanish and Portuguese speakers typically change an initial s to that phoneme....so for example, smith becomes esmith [sorry too lazy to do the phonemes]. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 19:08 | history | asked | mic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |