From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40658
Date: 2005-09-26
----- Original Message -----
From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: North-American English (was Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW-
"?"])
> Me:
> > No way. In Standard Canadian English, the
> > diphthong "ai" is pronounced /aj/ -- that's a
> > central vowel in this case.
>
> Pat says something senseless again:
> > SCE <ai> is pronounced [ey] not [ay].
>
> David:
> > It isn't really pronounced [ey].
>
> As long as Patrick continues on this Forum, we
> will be held hostage by his purposeful stupidity.
***
Patrick:
"Purposeful stupidity"? Another puerile jab.
***
> At this point, underlining _stupidity_ can't possibly
> be an ad hominem if he has taken great strides to
> earn that distinction!
>
> First, I ***LIVE*** in Canada! I know what standard
> Canadian English sounds like because I live it! I
> explained already that the standard is /aj/ and if
> anyone wishes to question this, the matter can be
> easily settled by watching one of our channels:
>
> Try the CBC => http://www.cbc.ca
>
> To be _that_ ignorant about Canadian pronunciation
> means that Patrick is too delusional to even click a
> few links to see why he's wrong.
***
Patrick:
"Delusional"? Another puerile jab.
***
> Second, The IPA symbol [y] is a rounded front high
> vowel which Patrick misused because he also does
> not grasp IPA, even after a decade of involving
> himself in linguistics online. He meant to write
> /ej/... because /ey/ would be just too unbearably
> absurd.
>
>
> = gLeN