accent or mispronounciation? (was RE: [thechat] Chile's tennis fighting for the medals)
Madhu Menon
webguru at vsnl.net
Sun Aug 22 10:22:01 CDT 2004
Caught this message just as I was heading out, so brief answer now...
At 19:58 22/08/2004, Joel D Canfield wrote:
> > I want to know why the American commentator pronounces Chile
> > as "chilli" :)
>
>An honest question, not antagonism ('cause I prefer to pronounce it
>'cheelay' but not quite): how would someone of average education and
>intelligence in your neighborhood pronounce it, Madhu?
I dunno, Joel. I have neither average education nor average intelligence.
One's less and the other is more. ;)
>I've never heard
>you speak, so I don't know how close your accent or apparent lack
>thereof (from my perspective) matches any of the folks I work with who
>are from India.
The only two evolters I've "spoken" to have been Isaac (at length) and
.jeff (on yahoo messenger.)
I can do several accents (including Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo [1] ), but my
"natural" one would be a stiff British type, tainted a bit by my Aussie
influence.
But the main question was:
>Does 'chilli' fall under the purview of mispronunciation or accent?
In this specific case, I call it mispronunciation.
Why? Because this bloke is not your average Joe. He's a sports commentator
who's *supposed* to know better. I'm more disapproving of a professional
whose job involves getting these details right.
>feeling in me) and others have medium to strong accents which thoroughly
>alter the pronounciation of some words.
You have an accent, I have an accent, we all have some accent or the other. :)
Later,
Madhu
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