Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject	Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution
Date	2017-05-03 14:25 -0700
Message-ID	<D52F98D9.A3500%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 5/3/17, 2:01 PM, in article 4zrOA.1$661.0@fx18.iad, "Wolf K"
<wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>>> Simply false. A human's ability to make any speech sound declines
>>> rapidly after about 18 months (around the time they begin to acquire the
>>> local speech). Acquiring two or more languages as child (up to about 12
>>> years of age) improves the odds that one can learn additional languages
>>> almost accent-free in adulthood. Emphasise "almost".
>>> 
>>> The IPA has signs for over 400 speech sounds. The typical language uses
>>> about two to three dozen phonemes, which explains why alphabets have
>>> about two to three dozen signs. Diacritical marks are used to extend the
>>> range. All languages also use suprasegmental phonemes, ie, patterns of
>>> stress, tone, and juncture, which serve to identify the syntactic and
>>> verbal structures, and modify meanings. Eg, try saying "He's home now"
>>> three ways, palcing the main stress on each word.
>> 
>> Thanks... excellent info and much of what I was saying but said much better.
>> :)
> 
> BTW, the linguists are very fussy about "phoneme", etc, and some
> estimate that humans use around 2,000 different sounds in the 1,600 or
> so languages for which phonemes have been recorded. But the language
> count itself is disputed, since from one point of view we each have our
> own "idiolect", which makes a language a collection of mutually
> intelligible idiolects, but ":mutually intelligible" is not easy to
> measure. Practically speaking, it's amazing we understand each other as
> well as do. Or think we do.

What do you mean? :)

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 20:04 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 12:19 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ron C <r.capik@verizon.net> - 2017-05-02 15:51 -0400
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 21:07 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 13:59 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 21:14 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 14:07 -0700
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 01:07 +0100
          Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 18:54 -0700
            Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 15:38 +0100
              Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 10:02 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-05-03 16:22 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 13:40 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-05-03 17:01 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 14:25 -0700
        Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2017-05-03 07:01 +0000
          Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 10:46 +0100
            Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 10:09 -0700
              Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2017-05-03 22:06 +0000
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 23:16 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 15:21 -0700
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 00:19 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 16:46 -0700
              Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-08 00:04 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-07 16:08 -0700

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