Andrew McCloud Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 I think I also tend to slightly retroflexize my velars. :3 But I haven't really observed anything special in particular about my alveolars. I had a monster lithp until I was 11, then after people started to really point it out and I became aware of it, I started to train my speech to keep my tongue in place.Vowels are fun. You should study them too. XDYeah, I'm hearing the faintness of the lisp then. The best way I could describe it in phonetic terms is just you fronting it into an almost interdental position though. Without listening to you sing/talk more, I can't really say that definitively, but I definitely hear something going on with those alveolars in your singing. I was about to mention the retroflex too, actually XDI am curious though, how do you know so much about these phonetics? Did you get Speech Therapy for your lisp and that's how you found out, or is it something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Yeah, I'm hearing the faintness of the lisp then. The best way I could describe it in phonetic terms is just you fronting it into an almost interdental position though. Without listening to you sing/talk more, I can't really say that definitively, but I definitely hear something going on with those alveolars in your singing. I was about to mention the retroflex too, actually XDI am curious though, how do you know so much about these phonetics? Did you get Speech Therapy for your lisp and that's how you found out, or is it something else?Nah, amateur linguist. :3 No formal speech training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew McCloud Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Nah, amateur linguist. :3 No formal speech training.Good stuff ^.^ Always happy to see other people interested in the field, as it isn't a very big one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Good stuff ^.^ Always happy to see other people interested in the field, as it isn't a very big one.I also rarely network with other linguists because most of the linguists I've met are utterly humorless people. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew McCloud Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 I also rarely network with other linguists because most of the linguists I've met are utterly humorless people. XDWhat?! No way! XD That's actually very surprising. Here at Ohio-State the Linguistics Department is hilarious. All of the students I've met so far have a very geeky sense of humor (yes, we do make Linguistics jokes >.>) But so far I haven't met many people without a sense of humor. In fact, one of my professors, (a very old senile kind of guy, but very funny) ended up talking to us in class one time about "Live Action Role Playing" and he actually used the term 'LARP-ing' XD I was stunned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 What?! No way! XD That's actually very surprising. Here at Ohio-State the Linguistics Department is hilarious. All of the students I've met so far have a very geeky sense of humor (yes, we do make Linguistics jokes >.>) But so far I haven't met many people without a sense of humor. In fact, one of my professors, (a very old senile kind of guy, but very funny) ended up talking to us in class one time about "Live Action Role Playing" and he actually used the term 'LARP-ing' XD I was stunned.Last time I played silly linguistics games, someone said "What is all this shit?" No one wanted to see it.??? ??? ?????, ?? ????? ???????? ?????? ???. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew McCloud Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Last time I played silly linguistics games, someone said "What is all this shit?" No one wanted to see it.??? ??? ?????, ?? ????? ???????? ?????? ???.o.O Wow, you've got me on that one. I feel like it's dramaticized English in some form but the V's and those Velar y's have me confused, as well as the symbols used after IT and EVT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 o.O Wow, you've got me on that one. I feel like it's dramaticized English in some form but the V's and those Velar y's have me confused, as well as the symbols used after IT and EVT.It's Greek alphabet. :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew McCloud Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 It's Greek alphabet. :3Wait, the entire thing -means- Greek Alphabet, it's in Greek, or you're using IPA Greek symbols (Because I know the latter, but that symbol after IT and the one after EVT I have never seen before in any IPA chart, unless they're just really deformed. I recognize the eth at the end of course. I think it's just the font you're using is difficult for me to differentiate some of them XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Wait, the entire thing -means- Greek Alphabet, it's in Greek, or you're using IPA Greek symbols (Because I know the latter, but that symbol after IT and the one after EVT I have never seen before in any IPA chart, unless they're just really deformed. I recognize the eth at the end of course. I think it's just the font you're using is difficult for me to differentiate some of them XDI'm writing English phonetically in the Greek alphabet. XD I study a variety of alphabets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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