Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas.NOSPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:34:00 -0400

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:58:40 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Padraic Brown writes:
>
>> Could be some kind of Hispanic influence.
>
>There was none in my life, apart from the Spanish style of some of the
>local architecture. I've seen (heard) more of that influence in
>Southern Californian speech.

There is clearly some vèry weird influence in your speech, to give you
that vowel in that place - unless this is simply some ideosyncrasy
that you came up with and never got rid of. That's a possibility.

Padraic.

la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu
ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.