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Re: yeah (was Re: Moraic codas)

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Friday, July 20, 2001, 2:35
Andreas Johansson wrote:

> >It's [j&:] for me. But when I see "yea" in a literary context (Elizabethan > >dialog, for example), I read it as [jE:@] or even [jei], something with > >relatively higher articulation. Do others make this distinction? > > I learnt "yea" = [je_i] in school. > > I rather like "yea" and "nay", prehaps because they resemble Swedish "ja" > [jA:] and "nej" [nEj] more than does "yes" and "no".
In the US today, at least, I believe they are entirely relegated to use in counting votes in governmental bodies -- hence, CSPAN's count of the "yeas" and "nays" in Congress. Does anyone else know of other languages that have register distinctions like this? =================================== Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos