Re: /S/ /Z/ /tS/ etc.


Ruud Harmsen wrote:
2 Sep 2006 14:51:16 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

No, it proves that people with congenital creaky voice can succeed in
spite of it.

Did I say otherwise?

Yes, you said it proves that Americans don't dislike it. It's entirely
possible that he can have a successful career as an activist and a
broadcaster with a voice people dislike.

You're right. That possibility didn't occur to me.

Just to be sure, is:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/audio/nwspeak/cm_creaky_apartment.mp3
the same as the kind of creaky voice you mean? It is what I mean. If
your own computer isn't sound equipped, could you borrow one for a

And where, praytell, would I "borrow a computer for a moment"?

From a colleague, at your employer's, you walk by and ask if you may

Colleague?

"At" my employer's?

How many times have I explained that my employer put a WinBox in my
home office so I could, as it were, telecommute?

listen to this sound for a second? Or a neighbour, maybe? A public
library with internet access? An internet café? (Cybercafé, if that's
what it's called).

This is not Europe, where the latter appears to be the preferred method
of accessing the internet.

Patinkin is the same age as me

I don't know your age.

Then you're incredibly unobservant. While I have probably never stated
my exact age here, I have referred many times to the years I was in
college, grad school, high school, etc.

(he went to school on the South Side of
Chicago with a friend of mine); I think Kennedy is slightly younger
than me, i.e. your age.

And wouldn't this have been a clue?

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