Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]

They are terrible. Just like children. Once they
started, they cannot stop any more. If you follow
things to the end, you'll finally find out that they
are no two different words in English including the
same sound, and not two places in the world where the
sounds of English are alike. I wonder how they can
understand each other.

Just out of curiosity, I looked in my Harrap's about
"goose" and "cook"; and so I discovered that in fact,
it should not be the same sound. For goose, it's
figured like gu:s (more or less), and for cook, it's
cUk (be U i figure a kind of reversed omega). Huh, is
that so ? And what do such sounds sound like ? For me,
a goose is a goose, and a cook is a cook. Well, it
seems that "goose" is like shoe, prove, threw,
through, frugal and room; and "cook" is like put,
wool, wood, would and full.

Well, I'm sorry, but I really can't hear any
difference. I often talked with English, American,
Australian, New Zealand people for a while, when
travelling abroad, and it never came to my mind that I
ought to do a difference, and yet, everybody
understood me when I said "goose" or "cook" (insofar
we had to talk about geese and cooks).

But that's all my own opinion, as a foreigner.

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> And Rosta wrote:
>
> >Joe:
> >
> >
> >>Let me see...
> >>
> >>KIT
> >>DRESS
> >>TRAP
> >>STRUT
> >>BATH=PALM=START
> >>CLOTH
> >>NURSE
> >>FLEECE
> >>FACE
> >>THOUGHT
> >>GOAT
> >>GOOSE
> >>PRICE
> >>CHOICE
> >>MOUTH
> >>NEAR
> >>SQUARE
> >>NORTH=FORCE
> >>CURE
> >>HAPPY
> >>LETTER=COMMA
> >>FOOT
> >>
> >>22 distinct vowels/dipthongs.  I think my dialect
> tends to splitting.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You will have CLOTH=LOT, and NORTH=FORCE-THOUGHT.
> Quite possibly you
> >(being a youngsta) lack CURE (does it really rhyme
> with neither "skewer",
> >"law/lore" nor "spur"?) and NEAR (as opposed to
> FLEECE+COMMA).
> >
> >
> >
> Yes, I'm afraid I really didn't think about that.
> North=Force=Thought=Cure.  And cloth=lot.  Nineteen
> distinctions then.
> It's lumpier than I thought.
>
> >--And.
> >
> >
> >
> >

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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