Re: English notation
| From: | Tom Tadfor Little <tom@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 29, 2001, 1:27 |
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Christian wrote:
>In fact, I find Tom Tadfor Little's accent a bit strange: "...Eenglish
>speekerz. It reeliez..." Do you really say /i:NlIS/, /ri:laj/?
I say /i:NglIS/ (remember we were conflating N with Ng), and I suppose
"rely" varies somewhere between /ri:laj/, /rIlaj/, and /r@laj/, depending
on emphasis and carefulness of speech. I was also compromising a bit
between what would be accurate phonetically and how English speakers are
likely to understand the phonemes in those words; most non-phoneticians
would probably tell you that "English" and "rely" both have a "long E".
Where do you live? Although I can understand that those words are not
always articulated with /i:/, they don't seem at all strange to me with it.
Cheers, Tom
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Tom Tadfor Little tom@telp.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Telperion Productions www.telp.com
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