dialect of Elena Kagan

[Tom Zurinskas]

Knowing Elena is from NYC and then saying you hear the dialect isn't quite as powerful as not knowing beforehand.  

 

I listened again and find nothing in my experience I can pin point to locate Elena at NYC.  A unique pronunciation of hers is for "dean" and "mean" to be two syllable words, ~dee'en DEE-en and ~mee'en MEE-en.  I haven't heard that one before.

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


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> On 5/12/10 12:02 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 00:54:12 +0000
> > From: Tom Zurinskas<truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: dialect of Elena Kagan
> >
> > Elena Kagan. I can't hear West side NYC at all. Pretty standard USA accent. Not an "awe dropper".
> >
> > http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/11/meet-elena-kagan?utm_source=email54&utm_medium=image&utm_campaign=court
> >
> 
> I'm not a phonologist, I have a tin ear and yet it sounds NYC even to
> me. You need to listen to all the vowels and the consonants.
> 
> --
> ---Amy West
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