Nobody's Perfect Dept.
Tom Zurinskas
truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 15 16:25:04 UTC 2006
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>>From a professional explication for undergraduates of cultural-theory
>terms:
> "Phoneme... A phoneme is the smallest significant unit in language;
>thus, both 'a" and 'an' are phonemes, but 'n' is not."
> --Ross C. Murfin, "Glossary of Theoretical and Critical Terms," in
>Daniel R. Schwarz, ed. _Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer...with
>Biographical and Historical Contexts...and Essays from Five Contemporary
>critical Perspectives_ (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997), p. 264.
Nice one. Explication. New word for me. Except it appears to come
stepwise from logic, which is not what definitions are.
I like the definition of phoneme, but "an" would be two phonemes. No?
Probably a typo.
>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.
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