Re: more English orthography

Barry Garcia wrote:
>Yes, we Californians fo not make a distinction between the two.
>Speaking of California idiolect differences, i had a guy in my spanish
>class who had a "surfer" accent. I cant write how he would say his words
>in IPA (i'm not sure), but whenever he would say a vowel it would be
>rounded off, and drawn out a bit  (best I can describe it). He'd do this
>with Spanish words and it would sound so funny.
>
Hah! Don't know that I've ever heard such an accent, but I can imagine.....
is it perhaps the masculine equivalent of "Valley Girl"-ese??
Along the same line:  my grad. level into German course had an Australian
who simply couldn't produce a proper [e:], so that _leben_ came out as if
_*leiben_ .  The hapless instructor was frustrated, the rest of us
suppressed laughter.