[OT] American versus British spelling and pronunciation (was:Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous)

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:12:20PM +1300, James Miller wrote:
[...]
> For a university project, I had to do a group assignment building a
> psycholinguistic demo platform for a textbook. While it was more
> focused on how the brain interprets language (very interesting in
> itself), we spent a lot of time talking to a linguistics professor,
> and he can produce the strangest sounds! I assume its because he's
> studied how these sounds get made so well that he can make them
> himself, despite not speaking the languages the sounds originate from.
[...]

I know someone who is studying linguistics, and she told us that in one
phonology class, they were taught how to make all kinds of strange
sounds. I assume that must be part and parcel of being a linguist. :-)


T

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