Re: Deixis (was: Fourth Person)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 5, 1998, 18:41 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Raymond A. Brown wrote:
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> [an excellent summary of the term "deixis", explaining everything except...]
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> Just how do you pronounce it? I've always said [di 'Ik sIs] dee-ixis,
> but I've heard ['dajk sIs] dike-sys and ['dik sIs] deek-sys as well.
That was one of those things in my reading vocabulary more than
speaking vocabulary, so I pronounced it like I thought it would be
in Greek: roughly, /dejksIs/.