Re: CHAT: IPA Question

Tristan scripsit:

> Not in any bad way, of course. If you want to insult someone and call
> them conservative at the same time in Australia, you call them Liberal,
> and if necessary point out you were speaking with a capital L, because
> then they're associated with the Liberal Party, which is the
> conservative one down here in backwardsland.
And rightly so, given the original use of "liberal".

> >"Our twisted vowels, our distortions and slackness of speech" is how Dame
> >Nellie Melba put it.
> >
> She clearly was mocking all those other English-speakers who can't
> appreciate true beauty when it comes their way.
The hell you say, <insert generic insult here>.  She meant every word.
(Typical self-hating Australian, not.)

> Maybe not in RL Kansas, but it's a whole different world on the big
> screen...
As I posted a while back, sung English has a strange phonology that
nobody would ever speak:  monosyllabic "heaven", [glor\jos] for "glorious", etc.

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