Subject: Re: [Homestead] our prez-Nuclayer, nuclear, or just nuke the whole damn thing.
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:40:58 -0400
Naaah, we Nort' Dakot'ns jist talks more righter than alls the rest.
Ray
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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.