----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)
> Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
>
> > >Is it /'sIn@m@/ or /'sIn@mA:/? For Americans, I mean.
> >
> > Depends on where in the USA, since we Americans don't speak so
> > homogenously/cohesively as do all peoples in the UK or Australia. :-)
>
> Back in the 50s, there was a movie theatre in suburban Boston called "The
> Cinema"-- it was locally known as the [kaj'nem@], to the amusement of all
us
> Bright Young Things at Harvard.
> >
> > In my dialect, it's ["sIn@ma]. In my parents', it would have been
> ["sin@m@]
> > but would have been perceived by them as being either archaic or an
> attempt
> > to put on airs. They'd have said _pictures_ ["pIktSVr'z] or ["pItsVr's].
> >
> An elderly lady of my acquaintance in Florida used to say "show"-- "Let's
go
> to a show this afternoon". Indonesian, FWIW, uses a positively antique
> term-- bioskop [bi'oskop]
Isn't 'bioscoop' the Dutch term?