Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 20, 2005, 9:27 |
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On Jan 20, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Not keeping up with the current state. The English orthography is
> behind the times: it reflects pretty accurately Middle English
> pronunciations (of particular dialects). In reality, of course, many
> soundchanges, dialect-changes and others have occurred since then (so
> that occur~occurrence no longer have similar stressed vowels; or the
> standard pronunciation of 'bury' now comes from a different dialect
> than the standard spelling).
At the risk of opening up yet another YAEPT (yes, i know it's
unnecessary... i say "RPG games" too, ya gotta problem withat? ;) )...
The stressed vowel in "occur" and "occurance" in my dialect are both
the same vowel, /@`/~/r\=/.
-Stephen (Steg)
"through sleet, through mud, through war, through blight,
through bandits and through darkest night..."
~ _the postman_, by david brin
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