Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 15, 2001, 17:26 |
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> I also don't like to say <automata> because my idiolect
> would render it as [O"tAm@%t@], and that secondarily-stressed [@] just
> doesn't seem to belong.
Hm. Anything I don't know how to say, I pronounce it as if it were
Hungarian, that is with stress of the first syllable, [A] for /a/...thus
this /automata/ I would say as ["Auto%mAtA].
Tieing into that other thread...maybe that makes Hungarian my native
language?
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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