Re: some stewpid questions

Roger Mills wrote:
>Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>
>
> >Danny Wier wrote:
> >
> >> Second, does anyone here have a fascination with reading/
> >> writing things backwards?
> >
> >I do it all the time. And I mean ALL the time. I'm way
> >past the "word backwards" thingy. It's too easy. I take
> >entire sentences and turn them backwards trying to get
> >the stress right and everything.
> >
> >The trickiest part is to get the tone accents right
> >backwards. And of course the plosives (which are
> >virtually impossible to pronounce correctly backwards).
>
>
>Truly. I like to do this too, but without a reversible recorder it's not
>much fun.  I assume you mean Swedish tone accents?  Engl. accents are hard
>enough. Generally speaking, a "broad phonemic" transcription suffices,
>though one should try to include as much phonetic detail as one can handle
>(backwards), e.g. pre-aspiration.  BTW a backwards recording really proves
>that Engl. "long" vowels have [j ~ w] offglides; to my ear, it makes Engl.
>sound like Russian, spoken with a parody-Swedish accent.
Do you speak of "long" English vowels like in _lane_, _mine_, _lode_, or
about long vowels like in _car_, _seen_, _door_? If the later, they sound
quite clean to me in most's pronunciation ...

                                                     Andreas

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