On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:41 PM= , Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2= :24 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeaberge= n@gmail.com> wrote:
> haha, all this lobdau for nothing. =C2=A0I don't hear any differen= ce in how you
> say them. =C2=A0But I definitely do hear a difference when I replied t= o your
> cynch with a recording of "writer rider". =C2=A0Can you hear= the difference?

=C2=A0Oh, I definitely hear the difference.

> =C2=A0Which one sounds funny?

=C2=A0Neither.

> Now I'm more curious as to where I picked this up. =C2=A0I was rai= sed in eastern
> Pa (which is pretty close to NJ, so probably didn't get it there).= =C2=A0I then
> went to college for 4 years in western ny (Buffalo region) (but my wif= e
> whose hometown was in western ny doesn't say them differently). = =C2=A0I then
> moved out to the boston area and have been here for about 3 years. =C2= =A0I'll
> have to ask some of my family who haven't moved around.
> Where in the hell did I pick this up?

=C2=A0I doubt you picked it up in college. =C2=A0Accents are pretty = much "set"
by then) (FWIW, I was 11 years in Massachusetts, and for the last 19
in Maryland. =C2=A0My wife still reacts to the way I say "modern"= (she's
from the Bronx), but I don't think there's anything weird about it.=
(My children's Baltimore long "o" pronunciations drives us bo= th nuts,
though).

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 --gejyspa
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> =C2=A0I believe I possibly do. =C2=A0Listen to =C2=A0my cinchcast = for them
>> http://www.cinchcast.com/gejyspa/160251 =C2=A0. I was born and bred= in
>> central New Jersey.
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 --gejyspa
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Odd, I grew up (and presumably=C2=A0acquired=C2=A0by accent) = from
>> > eastern=C2=A0Pennsylvania. =C2=A0Not all THAT close to Canada= . =C2=A0I only do the "ai"
>> > part of the raising so my "about the house" is not = subject to this
>> > raising
>> > effect.
>> > Now I'm kind of curious about what parts of the country s= ee this affect.
>> > If anybody is willing to help tickle my curiosity, please rep= ly with
>> > your
>> > general location and if you say "rider" and "w= riter" identically.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Aha. Wikipedia speaks, I am in fact just a very sheltered= freak:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://en.wiki= pedia.org/wiki/North_American_English_regional_phonology#Canadian_raising
>> >> "the General American pronunciations of=C2=A0rider= =C2=A0and=C2=A0writer=C2=A0are identical
>> >> ([=C9=B9a=C9=AA=C9=BE=C9=9A]), those American English spe= akers whose dialects include
>> >> either the
>> >> full or restricted Canadian raising will pronounce them >> >> as=C2=A0[=C9=B9a=C9=AA=C9=BE=C9=9A]=C2=A0and=C2=A0[=C9=B9= =C9=99=C9=AA=C9=BE=C9=9A], respectively. Canadian raising is quite strong >> >> in
>> >> most of Ontario and the Maritimes as well as in the Prair= ies. It is
>> >> receding
>> >> in British Columbia, and many of these speakers do not >> >> raise=C2=A0/a=C9=AA/=C2=A0before
>> >> voiceless consonants."
>> >>
>> >> Apparently Syracuse, New York qualifies as sufficiently C= anadian.
>> >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:11, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> My Midwest USA accent has no difference TTBOMK betwee= n the vowels of
>> >>> "bold" and "so". Nor are they dif= ferent in "pie" and "pipe", as a
>> >>> later post
>> >>> asserts.
>> >>>
>> >>> stevo
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Why exactly is this bad, timos?=C2=A0 The cll doe= s it because how else can
>> >>>> we
>> >>>> explain to nintadni that "o" says engli= sh "bold" not "so"?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I find that now that I have a pretty good grasp o= f lojban
>> >>>> pronounciation, I have a new tool to help me bett= er communicate
>> >>>> differences
>> >>>> of accent.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Ideally I should just get off my lazy arse and le= arn IPA though :(
>> >>>>
>> >>>> i.e.=C2=A0 lojban vowels don't help me to des= cribe the difference in
>> >>>> pronounciation of "b[o]ston".
>> >>>>
>> >>>> But the difference between english "pie"= ; and "pipe" is most certainly
>> >>>> distinguishable using lojban vowels (the differen= ce being "pai" vs
>> >>>> and
>> >>>> "pyip").=C2=A0 Just try saying "pi= e" in english followed quickly by the
>> >>>> "p" sound
>> >>>> and you will hear that it sounds funny and distin= ctly not like "pipe"
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Jan 22, 2011 1:29 PM, "Timo Paulssen"= ;
>> >>>> <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
>> >>>>
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