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