Notes to the 5th estate

[caprinus]

Dear every North American newscaster including Jon fucking Stewart:

Comments

[poeticalpanther]

Hahahaha...you so funny. Dali Llama. :D

[findsalome]

I love the Dali Llama almost as much as the Dalai Lama. Both bring a particular joy to my heart.

[littleminx]

They both needs hats.

[caprinus]

[littleminx]

[caprinus]

Are you at work? Cause that was def. worth $15/hr!

[ex_sonjaaa]

Stop trying to teach English-speakers their own language. Whenever I try, they get all offended. :)

[caprinus]

Originally the post had another, unrelated pronunciation note. Then I actually checked and it turned out I was completely and utterly wrong. I really shouldn't ever give out advice on anything related to phonemics, given my incurable wooden ear.

[ex_sonjaaa]

What was it? I'm a phonetics fiend.

Do you ever still use Polish? If you went back to Poland, do they ask stuff like "hey are you a native speaker or not?" because of any rusting?

[caprinus]

Auschwitz. Initial vowel sound as proscribed does not follow pattern of Austria/Australia/Aurora/August; I thought it would. CBC newscasters were saying it a lot last week when Harper was visiting and it really grated -- "why are you pretending to be German all of a sudden?".

They seemed divided on how to handle the letter "w", though. But it's a more subtle effect.

Yes, I use Polish a lot, and yes it's rusty, phonemically especially my pronunciation of dentals apparently (t/d -- English's made them softer, more alvolear I guess). Also: vocabulary gaps, calque idioms, all sorts of markers of being out of the loop.

[phoenix14159]

I always thought it was a long "a":Dalay lama.

Sigh.

[caprinus]

That's pretty close, in rapid speech! Well, close to my ear. I'm vowel-deaf, maybe that's why it grates on me when I do pick something up ;)

*hugs*!