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- Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:05 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The teens who can barely talk - only an 800-word vocabulary!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 18878
The mismatch between the number of letters for vowels and the number of vowel phonemes does present a problem. The second problem is presented by the fact that the particular vowel used depends on the regional variety. Standard British English has twenty vowels, but it seems Network American English...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:07 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The teens who can barely talk - only an 800-word vocabulary!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 18878
Tell me Masha, why is it more complicated to have a phonetic spelling such as 'you' than a non-phonetic spelling such as 'u'. The letter 'U' is pronounced as with an initial 'y' sound. And do you seriously think 'ur' and 'urs' are going to be more easily grasped then 'your' and 'yours'. The problems...
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:20 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: my project on phonetics and English phonology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7377
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:58 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: my project on phonetics and English phonology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7377
So you are including allophones in your list of consonants. Fair enough but you don't make it at all clear that the IPA diagram you give is of phonemes, but the details given below also include symbols not on the chart because they mention sounds that are not phonemically distinct in English. Frankl...
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:11 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: my project on phonetics and English phonology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7377
A very sloppy beginning. You state: The sound system of English consists of about 2/3 consonants, which are either voiced or voiceless depending on which sounds surround them, and 1/3 vowels, which may be long or short depending on where they fall within a word (phonology). and The 30+ consonants in...
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:21 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: which or that
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12915
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:43 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Huddleston speaks!
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33580
- Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:34 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Ambitious projects...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3355
- Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:31 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: from the beginning until now...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3955
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:24 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: to (verb) vs. for (verb +ing)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15414
- Mon May 04, 2009 3:07 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Cuckold
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6862
- Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:45 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23482
Overjoyed Garner hasn't found software to change all the initial 'Howevers' in my sentences to 'Buts'; very restrained of him. The trouble is that Garner isn't giving a principle but a preference, and he is misselling it. He doesn't say, "This is a personal preference I've pulled out of my rear end,...
- Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:15 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23482
Halpern's a nutcase. Reckons that Turing devised the Turing Test because he was a lonely homosexual who had only the computer to talk to as a friend. While prescriptivism endeavors to improve upon them. By insisting on the 'preference du jour'. For the idiocies of prescriptivism have a look at the r...
- Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:39 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23482
Frankenstrunk is a load of grammatical nonsense, as Pullum rightly points out Jotham. Have you bothered to read the article? I doubt it. The examples White gives of 'passives' are not passives in either American or British English, and the difference between the two forms is much smaller than you th...
- Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:25 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: 10 most hated phrases
- Replies: 28
- Views: 72048