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§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:49:53 pm PDT #6225 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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?

§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:50:25 pm PDT #6226 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.

Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:51:06 pm PDT #6227 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

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.

Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:52:48 pm PDT #6228 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

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

§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:55:25 pm PDT #6229 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.

Mr. Broom - Jun 30, 2005 8:57:28 pm PDT #6230 of 10001

"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

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.

Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:59:11 pm PDT #6231 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

"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.

Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:59:49 pm PDT #6232 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I think that's fair, Aimee

Thanks.

Mr. Broom - Jun 30, 2005 9:02:36 pm PDT #6233 of 10001

My middle school english teacher spent a whole marking period on proper pronunciation. "woulddenshoo" drove her batshit crazy.

I once made a list of utterances that have become single words. "Let's go" and "Did you eat?" are the only ones I can still remember: "sko" and "jeet?"

I am myself guilty of both of these, so it's more an objective list.

P.M. Marc - Jun 30, 2005 9:10:01 pm PDT #6234 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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.

Broomy's bringing the sexy speak...

(Would that I were kidding.)

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