Re: CHAT: "T's okay" and initial /ts/ affricates
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 25, 1998, 19:12 |
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:29:00 -0500 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>Laurie Gerholz wrote:
>
>> S'Okay.
>
>I know this is totally offtopic from what you were talking about, but
>I couldn't
>resist this one: you say /soukei/ rather than /tsoukei/? I find this
>very interesting,
>because I've been noticing around here that people regularly use the
>affricate
>/ts/ rather than the fricative /s/, which seems to go against Standard
>English
>phonology (but then it shouldn't be surprising because Standard
>English is an
>artificial phenomenon anyways). I know I use the affricate usually,
>unless I'm
>*really* tired. So, what do other people use here? I would be most
>interested in
>knowing. :)
I don't really say "s'okay", but my brother came back from a weekend in
Passaic, Jersey, saying "it's all good yo", which i guess is their
version of it.
He pronounces it as /tsOlgUdZo/, with the /ts/ affricate....and the /l/
is sometimes there and sometimes not.
-Stephen (Steg)
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