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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 4 1 2 3 4 #190897 - 05/05/10 03:58 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: zmjezhd]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague That line was stolen from olly, I could never make it myself. I understand some blackbird schwa though. One piercing stretched sound that means "bring food", one lower chockle sound that means "come on Damsel Amsel here is food, and one hell of a cacophony that means " hell!!!,cats! magpies! Flemish jays, crows! All hands aboard!" #190903 - 05/06/10 02:26 AM Re: Spring show off [Re: zmjezhd]   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Originally Posted By: zmjezhd "I sawr a behd turday." Hmm, /ʔaɪsɔːɹəbɜːd/. I understand the intrusive-r pronunciation up to the final word. Is the r intrusive, as Sir Michael Redgrave used to admonish his moppets not to pronounce, or does it somehow represent the schwa of the usual pronunciation of today /tə'deɪ/. I understand the intrusive-r to occur at the end of syllables when the next syllable starts with a vowel. YMMV. The only sense I could make out of the ur in turday was a non-rhotic representation of some vowel I couldn't even begin to think how to represent. The eh in behd was my attempt that I probably shouldn't have begun to think how to represent for some other non-rhotic vowel. #190909 - 05/06/10 12:15 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: Faldage]   Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh The only sense I could make out of the ur in turday was a non-rhotic representation of some vowel I couldn't even begin to think how to represent. The eh in behd was my attempt that I probably shouldn't have begun to think how to represent for some other non-rhotic vowel. Yep, I am so totally convinced. Let's throw the IPA and those annoying linguists off the boards and perhaps off the planet. We can just use English spelling to represent all the sounds of all languages. Besides, in a few years everybody will be speaking English anyway. And that with a non-UK, non-US accent. Ceci n'est pas un seing. #190924 - 05/07/10 11:27 AM Re: Spring show off [Re: zmjezhd]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Thou mayst keep on arguing about urs and thurs, I will stick to the turdus merula. Pronounced just like you see it. Turdus Meroolah. #190926 - 05/07/10 01:01 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: BranShea]   Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Turdus Meroolah. You can stick with the Amsel, but most folks around these parts (Silicon Valley and environs) would pronounce the two words as /'tɝdəs 'mɛɹələ/. Ceci n'est pas un seing. #190928 - 05/07/10 04:05 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: zmjezhd]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague /'tɝdəs 'mɛɹələ/ The bird agrees with that completely as long as he gets his bits of bread. #199900 - 05/17/11 03:25 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: ]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 Land of the Flat Water reported ----please, draw me a sheep---- #203494 - 11/25/11 05:12 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: Zed]   Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1 oppomix13 stranger oppomix13   stranger Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1 Wow, it's my first post on this forum , Test sbobet ผลบอล gclub #203499 - 11/25/11 05:49 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: oppomix13]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 Land of the Flat Water Welcome ----please, draw me a sheep---- #211262 - 06/01/13 01:37 PM Re: Spring show off [Re: Zed]   Joined: May 2013 Posts: 7 anddrewlee stranger anddrewlee   stranger Joined: May 2013 Posts: 7 New York Don't eat pink snow.It may cause sever throat infection thus lead to death.Weather is getting warm little bit. trademark registration Page 4 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) 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