Re: CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction, I hope,of M/C URL)
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 23, 2000, 22:21 |
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Irina Rempt wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:
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> > CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> > >A scythe? What a beautiful word! It's pronounced /sait/? /saiT/?
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> > Hmm i think it would be /saiD/.
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> Yes. The way I pronounce it the /ai/ is longish, but that's probably
> because of the /D/ being voiced.
Well, that just means you're speaking English correctly. Vowels are
phonetically longer in English when preceding voiced consonants,
whatever other context there might be.
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