Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#, JS, AS, Perl and D

Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by aaronbrethorst on Sunday June 16, 2013 @02:08AM (#5887629)

Pronunciation: http://www.asusilc.net/scr101/les1/s1glas.htm

"ch or tch as in: church, fetch, pronounced softer than the English sound"

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by dotemacs on Sunday June 16, 2013 @05:12AM (#5887924)

I'd say it's more like 'ci' (sounds closer to 'ty') in Italian 'ciao' and less like 'ch' in 'change'.

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by groovy2shoes on Sunday June 16, 2013 @09:40AM (#5888389)

In American English (and perhaps other dialects), Italian 'ciao' is an allophone with English 'chow'. (Really two allophones, 'ch' and 'ow'). Most Americans won't be able to hear a difference.

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Re:Ć Programming Language - Compile C# subset to C, Java, C#... by involans on Sunday June 16, 2013 @12:37PM (#5888957)

"ciao" and "chow" are homophones, not allophones. Allophones are different phonetic representations of the same phoneme found in complementary distribution. For example, [t] and [th] and [ɾ] and [ʔ] are allophones of /t/ (the first in 'cat', the second in 'tack', and the third and fourth in 'cutter' , depending on your regional variant. Also, the initial phoneme in Italian "ciao" is for all purposes identical to the one in English "chow" (the vowels are a bit different) - it is written as: /tʃ/

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