LOL I got a cookie message <stupid IE>
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Yes... the joy at New Orleans is over... the cops have thrown the revelers off the streets...
Now go home and be good for a month!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Oh... lint... right... oops... Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
The funny thing is that half the country pronounces the two words identically...
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
No, the funny thing is that half the country thinks they pronounce the two differently, when the sound is identical...
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
Well, I, at the very least, actually pronounce "lint" with an /I/, that lax vowel in "lit," and "lent" with /e/, the slightly more open and tenser vowel in "let."
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Where I come from, it's pronounced the same. Otherwise the dobie wouldn't be as funny as it isn't.
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
*scratches head* Interesting. Whenever I try to insert a....soft...consonant (such as an /n/) after an /e/, the sound of the vowel changes. I don't know if it's psychological or physiological, but /I/ and /e/ become indistinguishable.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
it's psychological.
You CAN pronounce it properly lehnt instead of lihnt, behnd instead of bihnd... just people don't.
Made spelling tough as a child. I kept wanting to spell mend with an I.
Pix
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
I'm partly saying, Pixie, that when I hear it, it sounds the same too....I suspect that if David were here, speaking the words, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
[ February 09, 2005, 05:43 PM: Message edited by: Mabus ]
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
Yes you would. I'd exaggerate it for you. As a Spanish speaker, I have to use the sound a lot more than you:
"Ten, pendejo, me has hecho rendir... Ven por tu sostén, méndiga..." and so on... :giggles to self:
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Can you tell the difference between "men" and "min"?
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
Not when I read Robert Jordan. (Which has led to some hilarious laughter every time I think about the character Min...)
I have to consciously exaggerate the difference to extreme levels to make a distinction, and then it sounds like absurd precision. Also, it veers close to "mean"--I assume the proper phonetic designation is /E/, for that?
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