Re: Re: [wc] mary, merry, marry

[Max H.]

Probably not. What I finally realized is that it's not the words, it's the vowel sounds in general. So comparisons are pretty useless. Even the phonetic spellings aren't much help, because this morning I pronounced those words very clearly to a native Virginnyun, and she said the same word three times to me, and claimed she said the same thing I said. We also had fun with "Don" and "Dawn", and "Erin" and "Aaron". They could hear that different sounds were coming out of my mouth, but they were UNABLE to pronounce them as I did.

That's OK, I'm perfectly aware that there are some very distinct pronunciations in Chinese, for example, that any 2-year native speaker can distinguish and I will not hear. But it's definitenly funnier when you're (supposedly) speaking the same language.

-Max

On 10/4/06, Julie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Max marries a merry Mexican maiden, Mary.

Max=marries
mexican=merry
maiden=Mary

Does that help?


On 10/4/06, Stephanie Smilay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/4/06, Max H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  Mayuh-ree, meh-ree, maah-ree.
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> > The first one rhymes with hairy (which should tell you that mayuh is one
> > syllable, but that's the hardest sound to describe), the second with ferry,
> > the third with Harry.
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> Max, Max, Max.  The problem with us philistines is that for us, hairy,
> ferry, and Harry all rhyme.  (Okay, techincally, "hairy" and "Harry"
> are the same sound, but you know what I mean.)
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