From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Aug 20 14:06:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 20 Aug 2001 21:06:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 44459 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 21:05:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 Aug 2001 21:05:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 21:05:48 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA28413; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B817B7C.1050603@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:05:00 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick NICHOLAS Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] ... On second thought References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > Americans don't say kar,l for Carl, either, right? Well, I do. > Because there are not two syllables in Carl. There are for me. I understand /kA:l/ as "Carl", but I wouldn't say it, and /kARl/ for me is German "Karl". > And "," stands for syllable break, not syllabic > consonant. > So does Carl illustrate anything here? Or should I drop it in favour of > Carol? That might be better internationally. But I pronounce Carl and Carol the same except for the stressed vowel. (Hey, if you can pronounce cup and carp the same except for vowel length, why not?) -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel