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johnco
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 Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: Rhotic |
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| God help all those Koreans learning American rhotic by a Native English Teacher with the inarticulate level of English of G W Bush |
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Masta_Don
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johnco
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| What does you tube and freedom fighting have to do with incoherent inarticulate enunciating? This is a desultory response;way off the mark from my original posting. |
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B-Teacher
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| Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: Rhotic |
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| God help all those Koreans learning American rhotic by a Native English Teacher with the inarticulate level of English of G W Bush |
Is this a general comment or are you referring to something specific?
Please share the story  . |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: Re: Rhotic |
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| B-Teacher wrote: |
| johnco wrote: |
| God help all those Koreans learning American rhotic by a Native English Teacher with the inarticulate level of English of G W Bush |
Is this a general comment or are you referring to something specific?
Please share the story . |
I think he is trying to show off his vocab. |
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cbclark4
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Location: Masan
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koon_taung_daeng
Joined: 28 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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well Rhotic isnt a word so what the hell are you tlaking about.
And bush maybe an idiot but he is a president. what have you done with your life?
http://merriamwebster.com/dictionary/Rhotic |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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A rhotic speaker is one who pronounces as a consonant postvocalic
"r", i.e. the "r" after a vowel in words like "world" /wV"rld/. A
nonrhotic speaker either does not pronounce the "r" at all /wV"ld/
or pronounces it as a schwa /wV"@ld/. British Received
Pronunciation (RP) and many other dialects of English are nonrhotic.
Many nonrhotic speakers (including RP speakers, but excluding
most nonrhotic speakers in the southern U.S.) use a "linking r":
they don't pronounce "r" in "for" by itself /fO:/, but they do
pronounce the first "r" in "for ever" /fO: 'rEv@/. Linking "r"
differs from French liaison in that the former happens in any
phonetically appropriate context, whereas the latter also needs
the right syntactic context.
A further development of "linking r" is "intrusive r".
Intrusive-r speakers, because the vowels in "law" (which they
pronounce the same as "lore") and "idea" (which they pronounce
to rhyme with "fear") are identical for them to vowels spelled
with "r", intrude an r in such phrases as "law [r]and order" and
"The idea [r]of it!" They do NOT intrude an [r] after vowels that
are never spelled with an "r". Some people blanch at intrusive r,
but most RP speakers now use it.
http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxrhotic.html |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject: Re: Rhotic |
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| johnco wrote: |
| God help all those Koreans learning American rhotic by a Native English Teacher with the inarticulate level of English of G W Bush |
Maybe you could start a fund to send them each a thesaurus. |
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