OT: code-switching

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:53PM -0700, Muke Tever wrote:
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>>E fésto Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>:
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>>>To me, it sounds pretentious/snobbish - and in many cases is
>>>incomprehensible - when, in the middle of normal unaccented idiomatic
>>>English, someone (<koff>Trebek</koff>) breaks into another language's
>>>phonology just to pronounce the name of a country where that language
>>>is spoken.
>>>
>>>
>>Watch Spanish-language TV in the US and pay attention to the commercials.
>>The dialogue is in normal unaccented idiomatic Spanish, but the product
>>names are generally all pronounced in standard English.
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>That situation is not analogous.  I suspect that if you, say, went to Spain,
>you would find that when they talk about Canada they don't say ['k&n@d@],
>but rather [kanada].
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>-Mark
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[kana'da] more like

David Barrow

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