Re: Yahoo has no staff tech writers
I think that you've missed the point I was trying to make. This is not a
variant pronunciation issue at all.
Ask any of these mispronouncers how "nuclear" is spelled, and I believe
that they will misspell it.
No, I caught your point. What I'm doing is challenging your assumptions.
Specifically, I'm saying:
- The Standard English spelling is not the correct spelling. There is no correct spelling in an ultimate sense.
- The written word - the spelling - does not take precedence over the spoken word. Linguists pay at least equal attention to the spoken word.
- The identity of a word is not tied up in its spelling and pronounciation. The two spellings that you see as two different words have a common origin, the difference between them can be traced according to known rules of linguistic change, and the two spellings have the same meaning.These similarities make them the same word. I doubt that any linguist would call them different words because they are spelled and pronounced differently.These differences are trivial compared to the similarities.
We are not talking about the evolution of meaning, Bruce. This is way
off the point.
The evolution of meaning is analogous to the evolution of spelling and pronounciation. I'm simply emphasizing that no aspect of language is static.
I disagree. I think these folks just need to learn how to spell the word
and then learn how to say it.
Only if they want to speak Standard English.
I have thus far heard no convincing evidence to support the notion that
transposing letters in a word is a regional dialect. It just is not what
dialects *do*. Dialects manifest themselves in strictly pronunciation
issues -- NOT in spelling issues.
Since when?
> No dialectic pronunciation of a word
is heard to be SPELLED differently to a nondialect speaker.
Y'all mean that? ;->
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