Re: Powers that be were Re: Newbie says hi

From: "Jake X" <alwaysawake247@...>
> > On the word 'stoopit', I guess that's an American way of making 'stupid'
> > stupid, because they can't just do 'stoopid' because that's the normal
> > pronunciation? The word seems to have essentially become 'stoopid'
> > /stu;p@d/ here all the time, even though 'student' is still /stSu;d@nt/.
> >
> My dialect doesn't have /stSu:d@nt/ at all.  We say /stu;dent/, though in my
> case I pronounce the /t/ with aspiration, not as sloppily as to have /t/ -->
> /tS/.  This is similar to the way my little brother, when he was learning to
> write, misspelled "tree" as "chree": because of the combination of aspirated
> t-initial and American semivocalic r, he percieved it with the wrong
> phonemes.  Anyway....
I wouldn't say it was with the wrong phonemes as that the spelling is outdated.
It's certainly /tSri:/ here, with /S/ epenthetic[1].  And I wouldn't blame the
aspiration either, because e.g., "dream" is /dZri:m/.  [At least in my lect.
Yours will almost certainly differ, but presumably not your brother's.]

    *Muke!
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