Re: reformed English Grammar, by me.

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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