At some point in the past I got mildly interested in linlguistics, and
linguists believe that there are very many dialects for most languages.
I got less stressed after I changed my “‘Axe’? The word is
‘ask’, dumbo” response to “‘Axe’? Oh he/she is speaking that
dialect”. But I agree that “nukular” is a bit harder to dismiss,
but I’ve accumulated enough life experience to recognize I need to
correct other peoples mistakes.
Peace, the Dude abides.
—Barry
On 1 Dec 2023, at 10:21, glen wrote:
So, on the death of The War Criminal, I've been reflecting on the most
irritating thing to me about George W Bush's stint: nukular. Sure.
It's irritating that he started a war for no good reason. If we learn
anything from Kissinger's treatment by the press, it's that those
sorts of things don't actually matter.
But the way you pronounce "nuclear"? That matters ... to me, anyway.
I've managed to grind off the burrs in my thinking when someone says
"axe" instead of "ask", glottals their Ts, etc. But I just can't get
over nukular. Every time someone says it that way, whatever it was I
was doing or thinking goes straight out the fscking window. With, say,
"axe", I can actually do it myself without feeling shame. Same with
t-flapping. (And vocal fry.)
Wikipedia gives me a nice list of triggerable attributes of language:
metathesis, elision, epenthesis, flapping, assimilation,
dissimilation, etc. My request, here, is for examples from anyone that
rankle you or that you've overcome. Presumably, the more aware I am
with others' struggles with such, the less I'll be triggered by my
own.
--
ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙
ꙮ
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