Re: Teaching and Learning English in Hong Kong

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:15:22 GMT

TripleEight wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:424174B1.1B8C@worldnet.att.net...
> > TripleEight wrote:
> >>
> >> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> >> news:42416DA1.47D3@worldnet.att.net...
> >> > TripleEight wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> "Lee Sau Dan" <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message
> >> >> news:87zmwubo82.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de...
> >> >> >>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff <grw888@hotmail.com> writes:
> >> >>
> >> >> >> Also in Cantonese it's "Cha" or more precisely "Tsar".
> >> >>
> >> >> No. There is no trailing "r" sound.
> >> >>
> >> >> -----
> >> > In the specific "British accent" you refer to, the 'r' does not "sound
> >> > almost silent." It is not there at all.
> >>
> >> Shows how short sighted you really are.
> >>
> >> Without the "r" "a" would be too high!
> >>
> >> "It has to do with British
> >> arrogance -- imagining that a sound change carried through in the
> >> 18th-19th century in a small prestigious region of England ought to be
> >> considered normative throughout the English-speaking world."
> >>
> >> WTF does this mean! Go get a life and stop being such a bigot!
> >
> > Learn something about linguistics before you post to sci.lang.
>
> I'm posting on soc.culture.china. I can't help it if you're reading this in your
> forum.

If you didn't want your claims about language to be read by linguists,
you could have deleted the crossposting. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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