Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

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> Sender:       Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
> Poster:       B Elliott Walker <umwalk05@...>
> Subject:      Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"
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> Barry Garcia wrote:
> > In all seriousness, most Americans (at least in my experience)
> don't think
> > they're better than Canadians.
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> In fact, in my experience, most Americans that I know of simply consider
> Canadians polite versions of Americans, who also say "eh?" and things
> like "oot and aboot" alot.  ;-)
>
> ...my two cents:
>
> hurrah for Canadian raising!
Yes indeed! I like this feature, but maybe that's because I partially have
it in my idiolect (I generally only raise /ai/ and not /au/, but with the
added bonus that I often raise /ar/ before voiceless sounds!) I think some
people around here (Wisconsin) also have the /au/ raising, in fast speech at
least; then again, some people around here don't have /ai/ raising. *Shrug*
I've thought of using a similar phenomenon in a conlang but haven't, yet.

> one especially favourite clip of mine is from 'this hour has 22
> minutes', a
> political commentary/satire show on the CBC. they have a segment called
> 'talking to americans', and one time they were asking people on the street
> if jean chretien was a war criminal and should be tried under
> international
> law...so many peole said yes that i nearly split myself laughing.
> (although
> come canucks would say yes too, but for entirely different and justifiable
> reasons).
I've heard of this show and would love to be able to see it sometime, but
alas the only Canadian shows we get here are either educational, things that
air on Home and Gardening Television, an cartoons from the National Film
Board, and the Kids in the Hall. Hmm, come to think of it that's quite a
few, but still not enough :O) Anyway, Jay Leno does a similar segment on the
Tonight Show where he asks people in LA different kinds of questions that
anyone should really know, and some of these people end up sounding really
stupid. I suppose they probably have to ask a lot of people a question
though before they get an answer dumb enough to air... I hope so at least!


Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo suHnus
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