Content deleted Content added
→top: Added {{vital article}} |
R.I.McGhee (talk | contribs) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
Line 92:
Based on numerous recordings of the author on Youtube and similar sites I have chosen the IPA "ʌ" (respell "u"); some may debate that "a:" is more correct, but at least such a debate would be somewhat dialectical, rather than any support of schwa, which is simply misguided, or at best a result of the rather odd yet repeated choice of "about" as an example of the schwa sound in many IPA references.[[Special:Contributions/77.254.197.201|77.254.197.201]] ([[User talk:77.254.197.201|talk]]) 14:14, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
I disagree with the above editor, you certainly can’t say that a schwa is unnatural in English. A schwa in Scala would make the most sense if you don’t stress the final syllable, same as you would in Java /ˈdʒɑːvə/ and koala /koʊˈɑːlə/. I don’t know of any case of a syllable final /ʌ/ other than monosyllabic words such as 'pho', and even then this is only true of some dialects of American English. I don’t know of any dialect of English which allows /ʌ/ to exist unstressed.
However, Martin is a German and will more naturally say Scala without a schwa, so the ruling on /ˈskɑːlɑː/ is fine by me, but most English speaking programmers will prefer /ˈskɑːlə/, so I’d appreciate both being listed as valid.
== Imperative programming in Scala? ==
| |||