All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn")

[Randy Alexander]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:15 AM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> As usual, TZ confuses the right to one's own opinion--however stupid--with a=
>  putative right to one's own facts, which only the dim-witted think they hav=
> e. The objective scientific fact is that there is no [g] in "sung" just as t=
> here is no [g] in "sing" (which is why a woman of your acquaintance (or any=20=
> a five-year-old child, for that matter) can tell whether you are telling her=
>  that you'd like to be present when she sings or whether you'd like to be pr=
> esent when she sins.=C2=A0

1. Suggest refraining from insulting language (like "stupid" and
"dim-witted" on this forum which is intended as a vehicle for
intellectual discourse.

2. If you had been following a bit more closely, you would notice that
in TZ's ideolect (until someone shows that it's a dialect),
distinguishing "sin" from "sing" it's not only the nasal and the /g/,
but the vowel, as he has [ɪ] in "sin" and [i] in "sing".  For whatever
that's worth.

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu

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