Re: CHAT: IPA Question

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> >         Along came a spider /sp@i4r\=/
> >         And sat down beside her /bisai4r\=/
>
> Hmm. To me, it still rhymes ([r\=] with [r=\]). But I don't claim to be an
> accurate speaker of Canadian. :-)
It isn't that.  Words don't rhyme in the European tradition unless they
agree in all segments of the stressed syllable *except* the onset, *and*
in all syllables that follow the stressed syllable.  (If the onset of
the stressed syllable agrees too, then that's a "rich rhyme", which is
considered aesthetically deficient; if the rich rhyme involves the same
*word*, that's an "identic rhyme", which is even worse.)  So "fitter"
and "splitter" rhyme, but "splitter" does not rhyme with "later".

> [snip]
> > The Fuluffyan's Lament:  "I went to Baltimore, I went in a restaurant
> > and ordered a steak, and they served me a porterhouse!"
>
> Ahh... reminds me of the old British "boot" vs. American "trunk". "Put it
> in your boot." "What?!" "Boot." "What boot?! Oh, you mean trunk." "Trunk?
> Huh? You don't look like an elephant!" :-P
In Philadelphia, a "steak" unqualified means "strips of beef sauteed with
onions and green peppers, served with melted cheese in a long roll".

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