Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

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

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