Re: USAGE: Permissable /IN/ (was: [i:]=[ij]?)

Kristian Jensen wrote:
 there could be some
>kind of morphophonemic pattern going on with "-ing" after long-i.  At least
>that's what I thought because my normal allegro pronounciation of "being"
>and "seeing" is [bi:N] and [si:N] respectively.>
Well, I can imagine, and produce, these pronunciations, but they don't feel
at all natural for my idiolect, which seems to retain the two vowel
qualities, even in fast speech-- ['biIN] (that's two syllables; there's
_something_ between the two vowels, maybe a very weak, super-superscript
[j].  In g-droppin mode, it would be ['bi@n].

 Furthermore, its is not
>"pedantic fast speech" for me because I never change [N] to [n] anyways,
>even in fast speech.>
    I generally don't drop g's either, but it happens, it happens.  We're an
ever-diminishing minority.

>Its times like these when I wish I could tell you guys what exactly my
>English dialect is. >
Yes, it would be interesting-- the circumstances you describe are somewhat
unusual, if I may say so.  But then, everyone's speech is interesting.

But I have never
>lived in an English speaking country per se.>
For the moment, consider yourself lucky.  You haven't had to listen to our
Noble Leaders-Aspirant runnin aroun the country, droppin consonants all over
the place tryin ta soun just like folks.  Aaargh.  I think I'll do a
write-in vote for ME.