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What's your favourite type of beer? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by Evkob@lemmy.ca to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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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 week ago (7 children)

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

[–] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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].

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

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