tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14538737.post115062276184678699..comments2022-03-25T15:38:16.639+08:00Comments on jiometry: Missing "R" And Other Storiesjiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12729398943251212958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14538737.post-1151723958479953462006-07-01T11:19:00.000+08:002006-07-01T11:19:00.000+08:00I see... I think I remember "Lourdes" now...Once I...I see... I think I remember "Lourdes" now...<BR/><BR/>Once I saw Mike in one of the gyms in Makati City (fitness first, I had a membership there). That's the only time I saw of him. He never changed at all (still the Mike I knew since Plaridel days).jiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12729398943251212958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14538737.post-1151231479964823272006-06-25T18:31:00.000+08:002006-06-25T18:31:00.000+08:00its cool. i just truly enjoyed the new england acc...its cool. i just truly enjoyed the new england accent. (lobsters and clam chowder hehehe). i lived there for a while, i house sitted for vera? you remember her. <BR/><BR/>lourdes is the news editor during my time. we were the same batch as deni kit mikes mikec ..rmacapobrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13884102161023123944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14538737.post-1151217372935945772006-06-25T14:36:00.000+08:002006-06-25T14:36:00.000+08:00Hmmm. Talaga namang tiningnan mo pa ito sa wikiped...Hmmm. Talaga namang tiningnan mo pa ito sa wikipedia ha, Max. ;-)<BR/><BR/>Still, the "r" is still missing, whether right or wrong. It defeats the purpose of teaching people how to write, read, and speak English properly in schools if this is how simple words like "park" will be pronounced as "pak" (with the a pronounce with a hard "a" as in aardvark).jiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12729398943251212958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14538737.post-1150677453088608012006-06-19T08:37:00.000+08:002006-06-19T08:37:00.000+08:00its similar to the boston accent. The traditional ...its similar to the boston accent. <I>The traditional Boston accent is non-rhotic; in other words, the phoneme [r] does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant. Thus, there is no [r] in words like park [paːk], car [kaː], and Harvard [haːvəd]. After high and mid-high vowels, the [r] is replaced by [ə] or another neutral central vowel like [ɨ]: weird [wiɨd], square [skweə]. Similarly, unstressed [ɝ] ("er") is replaced by [ə], [ɐ], or [ɨ], as in color [kʌlə]. Although not all Boston-area speakers are non-rhotic, this remains the feature most widely associated with the region. As a result, it is frequently the butt of jokes about Boston, as in Jon Stewart's America (The Book), in which he states that the Massachusetts Legislature ratified everything in John Adams' 1780 Massachusetts Constitution "except the letter 'R'".</I><BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/<BR/>wiki/Boston_accent<BR/><BR/>and on a similar note, in french R sounds like ch in the word lochness monster.rmacapobrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13884102161023123944noreply@blogger.com