Re: CHAT: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!

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From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!


> Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
> > I have a very
> > "globalized" accent, having picked up things from a
> > lot of different states and countries, and it drives
> > people nuts trying to figure out where I'm from.
>
> Same here.  :-)  I've heard guesses including England, Australia, South
> Africa, Germany, and "Eastern European", among others.
>
> I have some odd features, like "remember" and "December" *don't* rhyme
> for me.  I say /ri'mEmbr=/ but /di'sImbr=/.  Remember is one of the very
> small number of words in my idiolect that violate the general Southern
> trend of /E/ -> /I/ before nasals.
>
Sounds VERY South African.

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