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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of nicole perrin
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 4:39 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Not *that* vowel again! (was: Personal adjectives (was:
> Fruitful typos...)
> > It sounds as [e@] to my foreign ear. I've seen it represented
> by American
> > linguists as [I@], but I think that may be because there is no
> > monophthongal [e] sound in their speech.
> I would definitely characterize it as /e@/. And let me just put in that
> I think it's the ugliest sound...My last name, which I pronounce
> /pErIn/, almost everyone I know pronounces as /pe@rIn/, and if I say
> something to them about it, they (almost) without fail completely fail
> to recognize a difference. aargh!! (BTW, this is in the "NYC Metro
> Area" read: SW CT)
That must be annoying... kind of like when people I know (even in my family)
pronounce my names as ["irik] where I say ["{rik] (Yes, { is & for the
non-X-SAMPA-literate :) )
What also annoys me is when people pronounce <Jeremy> as [dZr=mi]. Ugh! I
even know a Jeremy who calls himself that. I guess that's fine, but I
wouldn't want my name to be a homophone of <germy> :)
Eric Christopherson
raccoon@elknet.net