[lg policy] Iceland Volcano Spews Consonants and Vowels

[Slavomír Čéplö]

Not to the newscasters, but rather to the writers. He specifically
quoted the following passage from the NYT article
(http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/iceland-volcano-spews-consonants-and-vowels/)
written by Andy Newman and Bao Ong:

The “EY” rhymes with the word “bay.” The “k” is softer than an English
“k,” almost like a hard “g.” And the “t” at the end kind of sticks for
a second and pulls away with a hint of a glottal “l.”

So I'm afraid I must disagree with Christina, at least when it comes
to these particular journalists: they deserve to be ridiculed, not for
not mastering a particular jargon, but for trying to appear more
knowledgeable than they actually are.


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 22:09, Lois Feuerle <LoisMarieFeuerle at cs.com> wrote:
> Wasn't Ron referring to the newscasters?
>
> Lois
>
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> On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Christina Paulston wrote:
>
>>
>> I thought I was calling attention to nonsense - only yours.  The other
>> poor blokes were interviewed in a subway station, if I remember correctly,
>> and made no claim to expertice. CBP
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Kephart, Ronald wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/17/10 3:01 PM, "Christina Paulston" <paulston at pitt.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think it becomes members of this list to ridicule others who
>>> have not mastered a particular jargon.  Christina
>>>
>>> Maybe, but if these folks are not willing to learn at least some of the
>>> jargon, what business do they have writing about language? And why shouldn't
>>> we call them on it?  If they're willing to publicly flaunt what amounts to
>>> their intellectual laziness, they should be willing to take the heat.
>>>
>>> In fact, this is a serious problem in many areas of language-related
>>>  topics, such as, er, language planning and policy. Public officials, and
>>> others, imagine that because they can talk, that makes them experts on
>>> language. Look where that's gotten us with regard to literacy in
>>> language-minority populations, for example.
>>>
>>> I think we need to be more vocal in calling attention to nonsense when we
>>> see it.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>> --
>>> Ronald Kephart
>>> Associate Professor of Anthropology
>>>  and Linguistics
>>> Coordinator, Anthropology Program
>>> University of North Florida
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