Re: Ashamed of [T]? (fy: /T/ -> /t_d/?)

On Monday, November 1, 2004, at 02:36 , J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:

[snip]
> I understand better the idea to be ashamed of that sound. I think my
> English
> has become more or less usable over the years, but when I speak it, then
> I
> inevitably happen to confuse /T, D/ with /s, z/ (both ways). It doesn't
> happen many times, but it keeps happening, and so I am a little ashamed of
> pronouncing it too confidently or loudly, because I might err. It's a
> similar situation to a musician who knows the parts he doesn't manage well
> and therefore plays them very low.
That I can understand & sympathize with - a lack of confidence in case you
get it wrong.

What, I'm afraid, leaves me quite cold is the "I am ashamed because only
people with defects make that sound" argument. That is like a musician who
is ashamed at playing a violin because the fiddle is the instrument of
vagrant beggars. As for disgust of the fiddle ........ well, I had better
say no more.

Ray
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