Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

Mark J. Reed wrote:

-snip-
>So I have diagnosed myself as suffering from F.L.O.E.S.: Foreign
>Language Over-Exposure Syndrome.  I seem to be unable to pronounce novel
>English words with any confidence, for fear that they might be
>borrowings.  In fact, that is my default assumption; I suppose it's the
>peril of a large vocabulary:  "Well, if *I've* never heard the word
>before, it *must* be a loan from another language!"  Getting something
>so simple wrong is a tad deflating, I must say.
>
>So have any of y'all had a similar experience?  Dish, dish!  (No pun
>intended.)
Thanks to a Mamqian over-exposure syndrome, I nowadays pronounce all unknown
q's as [M\].
This is worse than it sounds like; it makes it really difficult to decode
texts by the misguided people who think that spelling all instances of [ku(:)]
as _q_ looks cute.

(I also seem to suffer from P.A.O.E.S., Phonetic Alphabet Over-Exposure Syndrome.
I always want to pronounce the mathematical symbol ! as an alveolar click,
as in n! [&n.!=].)


-M. Astrand


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