Re: absolute pitch entry: accept an offset octave (issue 235010043 by address@hidden)

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On 20/05/15 18:05, James wrote:
>     /slaʊ/ the town of Slough in the Thames Valley of England
> 
Come friendly bombs ...

> :)
> 
> Also reminds me of this:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
> 
> I always show this to my non-native English speaking colleagues to show
> them how ridiculous English can be sometimes.
> 
> However it is a very forgiving language, you can really mangle our
> sentence structure and we'll still know what you mean ;)
> 
> James
> 
Thing is, English is not a pure language, it's a mongrel mess of
anglo-saxon, norman french, latin, norse, and heaven knows what else. If
you want a coop o' char, that's indian!

I gather someone has created a "text to speech" engine and, if you
exclude all the exceptions to handle foreign immigrant words, you only
need about 30 rules to cope with a 50,000 word vocabulary (in
comparison, a normal person has a regular vocabulary of about 6,000
words and typical total vocabulary of about 20,000 iirc).

Cheers,
Wol