Re: English notation
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 29, 2001, 21:32 |
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> >especially strange dialects of it that tensify /I/ before /N/, for
> >example (that wasn't meant in any offencive way, btw, it was meant as
> >humour).
>
> Well, humor or no, it is getting a bit annoying now, since several other
> posters have established that /iN/ is widespread in American English, to
> the extent that I don't recall ever having heard /IN/ in this country,
> although I have lived on both coasts and in the midwest also.
My Canuck nationalist mate will love you for this one - further proof
Canadian is different from American English. =)
Myself, I really don't care either way...my suggestion, apart from
speaking as you write, is to make life equally difficult for
(almost) everyone: use the Csango dialect of Hungarian (which you could
say is almost a separate language...)
> Maybe it's me, but I've read this post about 4 times, and the only thing I
> believe I understand is that you don't care for my accent. ;)
Hm. I don't care for MY accent...
-------ferko
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