eviDENTly, apparentLY
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jul 23 04:50:51 UTC 2012
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> the penult stress version is restricted to one-word rejoinders. I've also heard (and maybe used) "apparently" pronounced with *final* stress in the same ("So it seems") context: "apparent-LEE". Weird.
Works for me. At lear, it does, if the situation is obvious. Like, you
know, in response to a rhetorical utterance, whether question or
statement.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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