Re: CHAT: "T's okay" and initial /ts/ affricates

Geez, Tom, ask the hard questions!

Tom Wier wrote:
>
> Laurie Gerholz wrote:
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> > 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'm not really sure. I suspect that I use both in speech. I never really
thought about it. The /tsoukei/ shouldn't really be a violoation of
Standard English phonology because it's *actually* a contraction of
"it's okay".

I actually began *consciously* using the phrase only in writing, after
seeing other people write it. Until you brought it up, I wasn't ever
conscious of actually using it in speech.

Laurie
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