Re: THEORY: An English Koine? (was: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs.Computation))

At 11:22 -0400 22.6.1999, John Cowan wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>> Nay, let's go further and NUKE IT!!!!  ;-)
>
>What, and lose me?  Waaaaah.  Anyway, I love my city ("my"
>because I chose to move here).
>
Just come here.  Gothenburg too lies on the Atlantic and has a terrible
weather, tho more of the London variety.  Maybe that's why they call it
little London! ;-)

My English pronunciation is some funny mixture.  At school they taught a
Brit variety, but then everybody picked up an American pronunciation on the
tube.  I do distinguish "th" from "t" and "d" mostly, but as dental *stops*
against alveolar stops (again, mostly).  I don't do the same in Icelandic
for some reason, but then Icelandic /T/ is a laminal alveolar against
apical alveolar /s/, while my Swedish /s/ is a laminal dental.  REALLY
confusing.

I also have a rounded vowel in words of the _lot_ type, but erratically
nowadays due to exposure to AmEng.

/BP

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