Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 3, 2002, 9:06 |
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En réponse à J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
> In a message dated 05/02/2002 12.09.27 AM, Jan
> (ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK)
> writes:
>
> >In Dutch we have a word for this: "Geuzennaam"; you take the
> (insulting)
> >name the enemy gives you and use it proudly as your own weapon!
>
> What's the X-SAMPA for this wonderful linguistic bon-bon?
> ::wondering if
> he can appropriate it into Creo-Lego::
> IIRC, in Postmodernist theory, this is called "appropriation"...
>
In my speech, influenced by Southern dialects and Standard, it's ['G2yz@,nam]
(with the [a] usually a little longer than average, at least when the word is
pronounced in isolation), with ' as primary stress and , as secondary stress. I
just refuse to use " and % as an aesthetic statement :)) .
Christophe.
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