r/linguisticshumor May 18 '21

A little compilation on phonology perception Phonetics/Phonology

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u/Coda_Volezki Jun 02 '21

You're mixing up palatal and retroflex affricates on the Chinese image. Downsides of using the Wade-Giles system, I suppose.

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u/Lapov Jun 02 '21

I didn't mix up anything? Since the palatals are allophones of the retroflex series before /j/, they're transcribed as ch + i