Re: This week on Dancing with the Stars Re: The Business Memoir - the ``whom'' question

RH:
Do you insist that IPA 1996 and 2005 have [a] as low central and [&]
(a.k.a. [æ]) as low front?

29 Oct 2006 04:55:18 -0800: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

I really don't care where they appear on the chart.

It's now official: Peter T. Daniels is a coward and a fool, for
everyone to see.

You've been moaning about these symbols for three days, insisting they
were in a place in IPA where they are not. I showed you where they are
in IPA, and now, because you are too chicken to admit a small mistake,
you suddenly don't care where they are.

That's not how the
symbols are used in the real world by real-world phoneticians.

Real-world phoneticians = Americanist phoneticians. The real world to
you is the USA. To me the real world is the real world.

I repeat: it's all explained here
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec5/ipavsna.htm
but you refuse to admit it.

You are a disgusting coward and a fool, for everyone to see. I've been
trying to avoid such a harsh statement for three days, leaving you
ample opportunity to get out of this embarrassing situation
gracefully, by simply admitting that your memory of IPA wasn't quite
accurate. But you chose not to take any of those opportunities, so you
now leave me no choice.

It's really embarassing, to me too, to have to watch how somebody, the
author of a famous book, is making such a fool of himself, over such a
small and unimportant issue: a tongue position that is just a few
millimeters different. Unbelievable. But it really happened. I can't
help it. I waited and waited for you to admit your small mistake.
Grace period expired. Period.

--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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