Re: Anti-Chomsky Insults

On Sep 19, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Chris Bates wrote:
>> Whell, (what the heck whas that? :P  eeeep i'm being invaded by Hs...)
>> cough cough let me start again.
>> 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?
> 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.
Nooooo... i was just using /o:/ (not [o:]) to represent the "gnOme"
vowel, which is the vowel i've heard used many times for Noam Chomsky's
name!
The name isn't English, it's Hebrew, Classical /no3am/ Israeli
/no(3)am/, other dialects do vary. Maybe everyone is actually saying
Noam's name the way you and are, [no(w)@m], and it just sounds like
/no:m/ to me because i'm used to "Noam" being pronounced [noam] with
two full non-schwa vowels.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "ani ekhbosh et ha`olam!
   ani ekakheiv beMTV!"
      ~ 'joni haqatan'

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