From: Laura Conrad <lconrad@concord.com>
Subject: Re: dict.el
Date: 02 Jul 1999 12:39:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <knhfnnj9at.fsf@concord.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 02 Jul 1999 18:27:52 +0200
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> > My only gripe with it is that they give 'ny=FC-, =F7-ky&-l&r as a
> > pronunciation of nuclear. I thought only Homer Simpson said it that
> > way.
>
> Not being a native speaker, I rest my case! :-) I do note, however,
> that the first pronunciation they offer is 'n=FC-klE-&r.
>
By the old Webster's II standard, 'ny=FC-, =F7-ky&-l&r (I'm on a
stone-age emacs, I assume that's what I would transliterate in 7-bit
ascii as 'nyoo kyoo lar) should be included because it is quite
widespread (Homer Simpson is in this case accurately reflecting
working-class usage, a rarity on American television), but should be
labeled something like "ill." for illiterate or at least "dial." for
dialect. Newer dictionaries avoid such labels, but as Hrvoje points
out, display their value judgements by the order with which they
present things.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-01 10:55 dict.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-01 11:00 ` dict.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-01 17:49 ` dict.el Aaron M. Ucko
1999-07-01 21:50 ` dict.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-01 12:07 ` dict.el Tibor Simko
1999-07-01 13:32 ` dict.el luis fernandes
1999-07-01 15:51 ` dict.el Edward J. Sabol
1999-07-01 16:05 ` dict.el Eric Marsden
1999-07-01 19:15 ` dict.el Alexander Vorobiev
1999-07-01 21:42 ` dict.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-02 16:06 ` dict.el Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-02 16:11 ` dict.el Edward J. Sabol
1999-07-02 20:34 ` dict.el Doug Bagley
1999-07-02 16:19 ` dict.el Paul Stevenson
1999-07-02 16:27 ` dict.el Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-02 16:39 ` Laura Conrad [this message]
1999-07-01 12:17 ` dict.el Mats Lvfdahl
1999-07-01 21:42 ` dict.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-02 13:36 ` dict.el Robert Bihlmeyer
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