I don't rankle listening to conversation. It goes against my professional training.
When I was working for President Carter, however, I couldn't resist correcting him when he said "nukular." I'm also from Georgia, and I understood where that came from. But I don't remember that Jimmy ever got past that. On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 8:21 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> 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 > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609
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