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(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)

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[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It should be /ɹ/ or /ɚ/ instead of /r/.

[–] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

/r/ is perfectly acceptable to represent that phoneme in a broad transcription. Would only be a problem had ~~he~~ they wrote [r].

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, the question was in []. I responded with // because I'm not enough of an expert to attempt narrow transcriptions 🙂.

[–] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

That is also a fair point.

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