[Lexicog] Intermolar Laterals

[Joseph Farquharson]

Sorry:

Ina all the cross-talk I forgot who was using the
inter-molar lateral.

Well I now get to use the marked feature myself: Why
are they training the tongues of the metro drivers?
Why not train the ears of the listeners? But that
would cost too much moeny now. :-)


--- Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:


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David Frank wrote:
> Joseph, did you ever stop to think about what an
"intermolar lateral" would
> be?

Maybe I should step in here and make it perfectly
clear.

An "intermolar lateral" is a sound which, of course,
doesn't exist; it was
a linguistic stand-in for "tongue in cheek", which is
an idiom for "I'm
just kidding."

And Henry Higgins wasn't a _real_ linguist, he was a
character in the play
"Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw, and in the musical
version "My Fair
Lady."  In the play and musical, Higgins lamented that
English people can't
talk right, by which he meant they don't use the
Received Pronunciation.
(Whether he would have preferred "orient" or
"orientate", I don't know; of
course, that's a rather odd question, since Higgins
was ficticious, but I
suppose even so there might be an answer, given his
dialectal persuasion.)

So no, I don't really think that "orient" is correct
and "orientate" wrong,
although I freely admit that the -ate on the latter
seems either
superfluous or redundant to me, or maybe both :-).

Having said all this, here's an article you may enjoy;
it's about how the
Washington DC metro drivers and conductors are being
given lessons in how
to _properly_ pronounce the names of stations:

http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20050610-103311-8295r.htm
If you've ever strained to hear drivers/ conducters
announce the next stop,
as I have, I think you'll have to admit, there's
something to be said for
getting them to enunciate...

--
      Mike Maxwell
      Linguistic Data Consortium
      maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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