Re: reformed English Grammar, by me.

I don't really pronounce r's well,  my final t's are
glottal stops, when it ends "nt" I nasalize the vowel,
and my final l's are so dark when following a lax
vowel that it seems to constitute a new vowel, a
"retroflex" vowel...?

But I've never been accused of having a typical
American accent...

Clint


--- Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>
> > Hoke, (Nice transliteration, eh?), here's a
> question:
> > what does "rhotic" mean?
>
>
> Well, technically I didn't use the word properly,
> but a rhotic dialect of
> English are ones (like General American) that
> pronounce all their Rs, even
> ones before non-vowels. A non-rhotic one is one
> (like Australian) that
> skip ones that aren't before vowels, so that I say
> `walker' as /wO:k@/ (or
> `wawka' if you don't know the SAMPA, but you might
> get the `aw' pronounced
> slightly wrong... it's not like General American).
>
> Tristan
>
> > --- Tristan Alexander McLeay
> <anstouh@...>
> > wrote:
> > > Sounds like a fun idea, but:
> > >
> > > Are theys pronounced like yous'd expect from
> English
> > > inflections? (What's
> > > a `voative'?)
> > >
> > > fA:D@z or fA:D@r@z
> > > fA:D@m or fA:D@r@m
> > > jO: or ju@
> > >
> > > (Note that I'm non-rhotic, but it shouldn't be
> too
> > > hard to think of this
> > > in a rhotic fashion.)
> > >
> >
> >
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