ah/ awe

[Tom Zurinskas]

Bliemee, yu gaut mee thai miet.   But that's  UK not USA.

Tom Z



>From: Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at WMICH.EDU>
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>Subject: Re: ah/ awe
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:01:18 -0400
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>But Tom, we do have dialects when we write.  When I have been
>travelling to visit those lads and lassies who went to Uni with me in
>Edinburgh, and go into some pub in the centre of town, I frequently
>find myself surrounded by Labour voters and football supporters in
>their full colours of maroon and/or green, over the moon after their
>side has just blootered their Glasgow rivals three-nil, proceeding to
>get royally pissed as newts, asking for a quick carry-out as they
>stagger home to their beds.  I'm sure you could understand me right
>fine--and I didn't use a single word you wouldn't find in some prose
>piece in a newspaper, never mind the collected works of Ian Rankin or
>Irvine Welsh.  Even the spelling is general Standard there--in fact,
>I had to learn their system to get my Ph. D. thesis finished, and now
>I can't remember whether there is one or two l's in travelled,
>travelling and the like, though I do know that center, labor, etc. is
>mine.  I'm sure my colleagues will have other examples.
>
>Paul Johnston
>On Oct 1, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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> >> From: sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
> >
> >> Tom, would you wipe out all dialectal differences in pursuit of this
> >> pronounce-as-spelled campaign?  How would you deal, e.g., with the
> >> diphthongal i with which most northerners pronounce /light, sight,
> >> might/,
> >> &c?
> >
> > I'm not familiar with that dipthong.  In m-w.com those words above
> > do not
> > have vowels that are two-phthongs to me.
> >
> > As an ideal, dialectical differences are not good.  The purpose of
> > speech is
> > to communicate.  Any alterations that lessen this is not a good
> > thing.   We
> > don't have dialects when we write, why should we in this day and
> > age have
> > them when we talk.
> >
> > Tom Z
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