velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday

[Herb Stahlke]

Ron,

You're right, of course.  The problem is that even in retirement I
can't seem to escape the teacher's willingness to engage even the
stubbornly misinformed student.  In spite of my own experience that
some of them don't want to learn.

Herb

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM,  <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/7/09 11:14:15 AM, RonButters writes:
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>> Herb,
>> This is the guy who complains that other people are insulting HIM. You hav=
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>> been extremely polite with him, yet he gives you this silly, sarcastic=20
>> response. Silly because, of course, it is people who write books. Silly be=
> cause you=20
>> are a person, too, and one who has actually measured what the tongue=20
>> does--unlike the truespell guy, who interprets reality to suit the shortco=
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>> his spelling system.
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>> As the saying goes, when it comes to figuring out where the back of his=20
>> tongue is when he utters /l/, TZ couldn't find his velum with two hands, a=
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>> mirror, and a flashlight. Or maybe, as the other saying goes, he has his w=
> hole head=20
>> up his ass.
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>> Ignore him. He clearly gets some kind of thrill out of baiting the experts=
> .
>>=20
>> Cheers,
>> Ron
>> In a message dated 3/7/09 10:55:06 AM, hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM writes:
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>> Tom,
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>> I believe you used to work for the FAA?=A0 I hope you took research
>> literature on air safety more seriously than uninformed lay opinion?
>>=20
>> Herb
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