Chinglish

[Tom Zurinskas]

Has anyone noticed how sick this fellow MAM is.  How deranged to attack people and not the question at hand.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.

> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:11:31 -0400
> From: thnidu at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Chinglish
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Mark Mandel
> Subject: Re: Chinglish
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> Tom Zurinskas doesn't speak any dialect of English that anyone else
> speaks, but he KNOWS that everyone else should talk like him and write
> accordingly. Ignore him.
>
> m a m
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> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Herb Stahlke  wrote:
>> The vowels in "cheese" and "chide" don't occur before /ng/ in any
>> dialect of English that I've heard.
>>
>> Herb
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Tom Zurinskas  wrote:
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>>> Poster: Tom Zurinskas
>>> Subject: Re: Chinglish
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>>> How is "Chinglish" pronounced
>>>
>>> 1 as in "chin" where both vowels in the word are the same
>>> 2 as in "china" with a long i as in "chide"
>>> 3 as in "ching" with a long ee as in cheese.
>>>
>>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>>> See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.
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