Re: YAEPT:Re: Phonological musings (was: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton")
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 7, 2004, 15:46 |
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:15:41AM -0400, J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
> Additionally, I guess that at that time, this kind of RP was considered the
> standard pronunciation of English.
No, no, no. You would have to go back in time much further than the
1950s to find any such thing as any sort of "standard pronunciation of
English".
Why does this idea keep coming up? Why is it so hard to accept that such a
thing simpley does not exist for English? Haven't the YAEPTs made this
abundantly clear by now?
> I'd say that a truly modern redaction of the Lord of the Rings should point
> out that the intended pronunciation of _were_ was rather the one heard in
> _where_.
I think "redaction" refers specifically to the process of removing things
from a document; you might be looking for "revision" or "edition". In
either case, we would first have to establish unambiguously exactly what
the good don actually intended, and while the poem is convincing, it's
not definitive.
-Marcos
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