(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)
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is it common to say [bɪr] in canada? i learned something!
It should be /ɹ/ or /ɚ/ instead of /r/.
/r/ is perfectly acceptable to represent that phoneme in a broad transcription. Would only be a problem had ~~he~~ they wrote [r].
yeah true. thx. i was just a bit puzzeled bc i assumed [ ].
This reminds me Mark Hale using emojis for broad transcription of Marshallese vowels. That was hilarious (and genius - it's a great way to tell people "focus on their contrast dammit").
Well, the question was in []. I responded with // because I'm not enough of an expert to attempt narrow transcriptions 🙂.
That is also a fair point.
Usually I wouldn't bother, but seeing as this is a linguistics community; it's a lot more inclusive to use the singular "they" rather than "he" if you don't know the pronouns one uses.
Signed, not a he.
I don't necessarily agree with your argumentation generally speaking (both the generic masculine pronoun and singular they are fine in my opinion), but you do literally have your pronouns right there, so I will admit I could/should have avoided the issue anyhow. Sorry about that.
Edit: Oh, also, Weißbier, to answer your post's question.
Note that I'm not great with IPA, English is my second language, and I made this while stoned 2 years ago, so it might not necessarily be accurate! :P I'm pretty sure that's how most people pronounce it here. Although Canadian English is a wonderful mishmash of American and British Engliah, with a hint of French and Indigenous influences.
How do people say it in your neck of the woods?
It's obviously not your favorite type of beer :)
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[r] is like the trill (as in Spanish, Polish, etc.). You're probably using either [ɹ] or [ɚ], depending on how vocalic your R is.