I have an...ethical question, I guess.
While I never graduated from college, I do put the 2 schools I went to to show that I did, in fact attend college, on my resume. I do NOT put that I graduted, nor do I put GPA's. I don't put dates, either. If a potential employer assumes I have a degree but never asks me if I graduated(to which I would absolutely say, "No"), can they get pissy when they find out I don't? I mean, I know they "can"... I'm honestly not trying to make it look like I have a degree, I just want to show that I continued my education past high school.
How could I show that I did go to school after high school in a way that wouldn't be so...open to assumption?
My Ts are usually both voiced and aspirated, and it doesn't depend on stress in the sentence or position in the word.
Voiced? I'm not being Condescendy Linguistics Guy here, but I thought a voiced T was a D. Now I'm extra curious.
Aimée, I don't know. I don't put GPA down or that I graduated either -- one person did ask me why I didn't graduate, which was awkward -- I tool 3.5 years to finish. Should have been three, but I got lazy about making up a course I was sick for. Who wants to talk about that in an interview? But he thought I dropped out before my final semester.
Maybe say you studied XYZ, and
not
use the terms BA or BSc, or whatever's appropriate?
I'm not being Condescendy Linguistics Guy here, but I thought a voiced T was a D.
Sorry -- I brain-farted. Unvoiced, aspirated, will edit.
Broom, keep your teeth together and say "teeter totter". Then say "duh". It's the toungue against the teeth with tht "t" sounds that makes the difference.
Maybe say you studied XYZ, and not use the terms BA or BSc, or whatever's appropriate?
It looks like this:
EDUCATION
Central Michigan University English Studies
Washtenaw Community College Business/Accounting
I think that's fair, Aimee -- I'm not sure what else to recommend. You're not claiming to have degrees.
Mr Broom -- to expand -- since Americans sometimes voice their Ts, is it strictly correct to say that voicing it makes it a D? It's a T pronounced like a D. Although I flipped the bit, that was what I was intending to distinguish between.
Oh, it definitely is. In most cases, T just becomes a flap, particularly between vowels, but in more lax pronunciation, it becomes a full-on voiced interdental stop: "hurting" and "herding" are homophonous to many Americans.
"hurting" and "herding" are homophonous to many Americans.
My middle school english teacher spent a whole marking period on proper pronunciation.
"woulddenshoo" drove her batshit crazy.
