Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

"Mark J. Reed" wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:31:56AM -0500, David Barrow wrote:
> > > JF [jIr m@Dr w@ z@ h&@mstr En dZr faDr smEL t@ vEldrbEriz]
> > > Joe [jO: mVD@ w@z@ h&mst@, n= jO: fA:D@ smEl?@v Eld@bEriz]
>
> > This is quite interesting to compare.
>
> Actually, each of them is interesting on its own to me, for different
> reasons.  The pronunciation [jIr] for "your" sounds Fargoish to
> me, while "h&@mster" has more Southern connotations.    Meanwhile,
> Joe's lack of rhoticization and the glottal stop in [smEl?@v] smack of
> British, but I can't recall ever hearing a British person produce
> [&]  unless they were putting on an American accent.  The British
> "short A" sound seems to be more like [a] or even a shortened [A].
>
> For reference, I would pronounce the sentence thus:
>
>         [jr'm@Drw@z@'h&mstrn=jr'fADrsmElt@v'Eldr,bEriz]
>
> -Mark
Since you are not making any comments on what I said, wouldn't it be
better to reply directly to one of the Joes messages?

At least so any newcomers to the thread don't get confused as to who said
what

David Barrow