Re: Grammar

"Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack )"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bob LeChevalier wrote:
>> Holger Dansk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:25:40 -0500, Bob LeChevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >>The problem you have is that there is NO "correct pronunciation" of
>> >>English. Each dialect does it differently, and NONE of them are
>> >>"right" or "wrong".
>> >
>> >If you do not realize that the negro pronunciation of the words that I
>> >mentioned above is not correct then you have a problem with perception.
>> 
>> No.  I have a problem with the notion of "correct" when it comes to
>> English pronunciation.  Unlike French, we have no Academie, and there
>> is no universal standard of "correct" pronunciation.
>> 
>There's nothing wrong with thinking that how you say words is the
>correct way. It's natural. We have dictionary producers to give us some
>idea of how words are being mostly pronounced. If we all sounded exactly
>network standard, would that be ideal? (Granted Peter Jennings should
>speak American and Brokaw should take the cotton out of his mouth.)

So even network standard isn't standard among those on the network.

>> My wife distinguishes between "can" the noun, and "can" the verb, and
>> between "Mary", "merry" and "marry".  They are homonyms to me.  She is
>> bothered when the girl's name "Dawn" and "Don" are pronounced the
>> same, but "Dawn" pronounces her own name such that my wife hears
>> "Don".  You would apparently say that Dawn cannot pronounce her own
>> name correctly, which is sheer idiocy.
>> 
>Are you in Washington state?

I'm in Virginia, but raised on the San Francisco peninsula by parents
from Michigan and NYC, and I went to college in Michigan; the most
common dialect spoken in the bay area is a midwestern derivative.  My
wife is from Philadelphia, which is a city with one of the most
distinctive and localized accents in the country.

lojbab
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