[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: How to Pronounce "properly"

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: meboriqua at aol.com 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 3:32 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: How to Pronounce "properly"


  --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:

  My reactions to varied pronunciations
  > are mixed, since I'm anal and like things done correctly, but as a
  > linguist I am striving to be descriptivist (except in the case of
  > "nucular" and "real-a-tor," which are Big Ol' Push Buttons for me).>

  I think 'anyways' is the word that drives me nuts (not that it's a 
  pronunciation issue, but still).  "Nucular" is a good one, too, 
  though.  I don't even think I know how to say it like that.  Teaching 
  inner city kids in the Bronx has made me more relaxed on 
  pronunciation.  I can't control myself with spelling and grammar 
  mistakes, though.  I've had students rewrite essays 7-8 times before 
  accepting them.  I'm lucky my kids like me as much as they do, 
  considering some of the kids who are asked to rewrite their essays 
  have criminal records.

  I student taught this past semester in a very rural southern highschool where most of the kids had thick southern accents and spoke so fast they barely finished their words:
  "I fittin' to go the cla-room"  translation-I'm fixing to go to the classroom.
  "She's a role buh-ho!"  She's a royal butthole.
  "It's rurnt!" It is ruined.

  And they wrote just like they spoke.  Trying to correct grammar was a losing battle, so in the end, I was assimilated and started talking with *their*  accent (which amused them all greatly).



  >I always know when I'm answering a business call because my >last name 
  >is always mispronounced.  It's a good thing we screen our >calls.

  None of my kids could seem to pronounce my last name: Driscoll.  I would get called Mz. Driscoe, Friscoe, Crisco...and my favorite: on my last day, they all threw a party for me and one kid got up and wrote on the board: "Happy last day, Miss Disco."  another student corrected him and he was about erase it, but I said "No! Leave it!"  because it amused us all so much.



  ender (that's Miss Disco to you!)


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