(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)
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Root.
I could definitely go for a cool IPA right now.
I used to go out of my way for very different beers that were outside the domestic ones. Strong IPAs, stouts, Imperials. But these days I prefer very clean lagers.
Gose
Belgian triple or Saison
Stout. Specially dry stout. Kind of hard to come by in Brazil, most people would rather drink Pilsner, specially light ones.
Fun fact: you can pretty much pinpoint the folks from my city (Curitiba) by how we casually call beer here, "bera" [bɛ.ɾɐ].
is it common to say [bɪr] in canada? i learned something!
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?
and I made this while stoned 2 years ago,
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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.
I’m not great with IPA
It's obviously not your favorite type of beer :)
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.