Re: BBC does it again
- From: mb <azythos2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:42:40 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 5, 6:45 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The same morning radio program. I can't tell you the announcer's name.
/gw&n't&n@mow/, several times. With the same vowel as in "Security
C&uncil" a sentence later.
Why does he use a vowel that is probably impossible in Spanish,
Impossible in the mouth of a native speaker, but perfectly
recognizable as part of the /a/ phoneme.
and
moreover is not ever used in the US, in the name "Guantanamo"?
That's no authority. The USans will have their own crazy sounds to
mangle any and all foreign words while the Brits have theirs.
OTOH, several BBC reporters have come round to /'ba,rak/, getting at
least the second vowel right but not the stress.
Of course, now that you formulated, in a parallel thread, Daniels'
iron law that foreign words used in English, including names and also
hapaxes need to be phone-perfect to a parochial local-Anglo ideal
sound as defined by the American Midwest but at the same time also
true to the original sound as uttered by the horse's mouth itself, you
got yourself a problem in re Guantánamo.
.
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