On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:27:18 -, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote:
But anyway, to me, rolling Rs seems pretentious
It seems Spanish to me ;) Get your yappy 'perro' off my leg!
LOL :)
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On 08/03/2012 11:04, Regan Heath wrote:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:21:00 -, Derek ddparn...@bigpond.com wrote:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:38:08 +1100, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote:
British English may be the more official English, with American English as a
mere
variation ...
In one sense,
On 9 March 2012 01:23, Stewart Gordon smjg_1...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 08/03/2012 11:04, Regan Heath wrote:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:21:00 -, Derek ddparn...@bigpond.com wrote:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:38:08 +1100, Nick Sabalausky a@a.a wrote:
British English may be the more official English,
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On 9 March 2012 01:23, Stewart Gordon smjg_1...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm finding it hard to figure how someone would pronounce the o and u
in
colour separately.
I would imagine it'd be
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:55:45PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Being British means that I do notice the differences in
pronunciation, I've pretty much done the opposite to
On 08/03/2012 19:29, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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Another thing is, I can't roll my R's. My tongue as stiff as a stick and
just refuses to roll anything, no matter how hard I try.
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I can't roll my tongue either. I'm told it's genetic. :)
But anyway, to me, rolling Rs seems pretentious
On 08/03/2012 18:55, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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As you've noticed, trying to get a person to hear the difference often
doesn't work (And even if they can hear it, that doesn't necessarily give
them enough info to actually pronounce it). I think the right thing to do,
at least in cases where it
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:29:05PM +, Stewart Gordon wrote:
On 08/03/2012 19:29, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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Another thing is, I can't roll my R's. My tongue as stiff as a stick
and just refuses to roll anything, no matter how hard I try.
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I can't roll my tongue either. I'm told it's
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Another thing is, I can't roll my R's. My tongue as stiff as a stick and
just refuses to roll anything, no matter how hard I try.
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I can't roll my
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On 08/03/2012 19:29, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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Another thing is, I can't roll my R's. My tongue as stiff as a stick
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:30:05PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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But anyway, to me, rolling Rs seems
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On 9 March 2012 01:23, Stewart Gordon smjg_1...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm finding it hard to figure how
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:45:34PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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I have a little extra insight into this as my mom is a
speech/language pathologist:
As you've noticed, trying to get a person to hear
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The problem with learning by 'hearing' is that, past a certain age, you
lose the sensitivity to certain sound distinctions that are not present
in your mother tongue. I suppose
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For a university project, I had to do a group assignment building a
psycholinguistic demo platform for a textbook. While it was more
focused on how the brain interprets language (very
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:12:20PM +1300, James Miller wrote:
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For a university project, I had to do a group assignment building a
psycholinguistic demo platform for a textbook. While it was more
focused on how the brain interprets language (very interesting in
itself), we spent a lot of
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:14:30PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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I've heared that in countries like China which have a tonal language,
the percentage of people with perfect
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