Re: Anti-Chomsky Insults

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> Whell, (what the heck whas that? :P  eeeep i'm being invaded by Hs...)
> cough cough let me start again.
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> Well, whatever your "long O" vowel is, whether it's /o:/ or /ow/ or
> /Ow/ or /@w/ or /Ew/ or who knows what... you pronounce "Noam" (=Nome,
> similar to Roam, Rome, Bone, Phone...) differently than "gnome"?  How
> so?
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Gnome rhymes with  Rome, Roam, Bone, etc.... but I was just saying, if
"Noam" is correctly pronounced no:m regardless of dialect (the name
isn't English anyway is it?), then in my dialect Gnome doesn't rhyme
with Noam. On the other hand, if I can pronounce Noam so it rhymes with
Roam, Bone etc (not pronounce it no:m), then it does rhyme. :)
Although... I've always pronounced it /Now@m/ or something similar from
just seeing it spelt.

> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "i defend myself, therefore i exist."
>      ~ herbert pagani
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