At 7:04 PM -0400 6/17/03, timothy price wrote:>[...] And inevitably (oops, in- ev- it- a- bly) you will ...
Actually, it's "in-ev-i-ta-bly" (:>)
--Richard
But a singer would sing, "I-ne-vi-ta-bly"
Christopher BJ Smith replied: Irrelevant, IMHO.
Singers who read English will know how to pronounce it properly, and the choral director will help in the ambiguous cases, and it will be sung somewhat differently by choruses than by soloists in any case. In the interests of preserving a literate English population, I exhort you to use correct hyphenation.
More to the point, I would not recognize the word so hyphenized, and since pronunciation depends on recognition (as pointed out in reference to a word broken at a page turn) I would not automatically pronounce it correctly.
I've done rather a lot of transcribing from recordings, and guided arranging classes through the same process, and the notation of language is not language itself, just as the notation of music is not the music itself. The map is not the territory. There are layers and layers of subtle differences that cannot be notated, and trying to jury-rig such a notation (which students often do) ends up giving you garbage that no longer communicates. Try transcribing a Sinatra tune, if this doesn't make sense to you! Sometimes a consonant clearly falls on one beat and the vowel following it on another. It's called "style."
John
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