[Homestead] our prez-Nuclayer, nuclear, or just nuke the whole damn thing.

rayzentz at aim.com rayzentz at aim.com
Wed Sep 17 17:40:58 EDT 2008


Naaah, we Nort' Dakot'ns jist talks more righter than alls the rest.

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: Clansgian at wmconnect.com

The 'mispronounce' bit is regional or cultural elitism.

<snip>
The volitilization of vowels is so subtle in most words that the 
outside
hearer supplys the vowel (isn't aware that the word is being pronounced
differently) only they hear it as a strong accent.  In fluent 
conversaton it's
Appl'Pie, two syllables.  The phenomenon only occurs because in may 
forms of
Southern
speech polysylabic words of more than three syllables put a strong 
primary
accent or emphasis on more than one syllable.  This occludes the short 
syllable
and it disappears.

<snip>

The ignorance does not lie with Bush, but in linguistic and cultural 
elitists.

James

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