Teenglish from England

[Tom Zurinskas]

I think "tinglish" would sound "tinny", a thin tint of tinny that might make one cringe too (if we're talking short i here).


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling



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> Subject: Re: Teenglish from England
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> At 11:03 AM +0000 9/16/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>New teenage words from England (perhaps not only England)
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>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213626/Teenglish-From-Frape-Neek-words-used-teenagers-baffle-adults.html
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>>When I say the word "teenglish" my tongue goes alveolar (top front),
>>but for English it's velar (top back). Yet the vowel befor the "n"
>>is still long e, ~ee. ~teenglish ~Eenglish.
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>>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>>see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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> and for me "Teenglish" (the variety of English associated with teens)
> differs from "Tinglish" (the variety of English that makes you
> tingle) in and only in the quality of the vowel before the nasal,
> which is additional evidence that the vowel in the latter case (or in
> "English", or "Singlish" [Singaporean English]) is a lax [I], not a
> tense [i]. (Of course I might also render the former with an
> alveolar consonant if I wanted to stress the morphological structure
> of "teen" + "English".)
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> LH
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