the dissappearing "awe" sound

[Tom Zurinskas]

What's your point Pedro?  Have you no problem with changing talk to tock, walk to wok, hawk to hock, Dawn to Don etc.? as awe-dropping does.  Do you think it's a great idea?  Is it an improvement?  Do you promote it?

Define "rant" for us.  Does taking a possition constitute a rant.  I believe characterizing other people posts as rants is a rant.  Thus you would be ranting, no? Pedro?

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Pedro Alvarez Espinoza
> Subject: Re: the dissappearing "awe" sound
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> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> Can you believe this advice to English learners. Life is simpler: One less
>> phoneme to say. To me this shows the need to stabilize the language. No
>> more awe-dropping.
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> Hmm. Now I know why many people in this group ignore your suggestions and
> rants.
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