Re: an announcement...
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 24, 1999, 19:41 |
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Ed Heil wrote:
> That sounds like a lot of fun, though! I made a hobby of trying to
> get those things right pronouncing Greek, but nobody else in the
> department much cared.
Yeah, I see what you mean... I just associate it with exactly
such a sing-song effect that you describe, though. My classmates
tend to think, I think, that I'm trying to show off my knowledge
of linguistics (they know I'm a linguist), so I only do it when
the teacher is in ear-shot, not when we're studying by ourselves
(when I revert to more English sounding values of consonants
like /T/ for "theta", etc.).
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