[FRIAM] metathesis

[Barry MacKichan]

At some point in the past I got mildly interested in linlguistics, and 
linguists believe that there are very many dialects for most languages. 
I got less stressed after I changed my “‘Axe’? The word is 
‘ask’, dumbo” response to “‘Axe’? Oh he/she is speaking that 
dialect”. But I agree that “nukular” is a bit harder to dismiss, 
but I’ve accumulated enough life experience to recognize I need to 
correct other peoples mistakes.

Peace, the Dude abides.

—Barry

On 1 Dec 2023, at 10:21, glen wrote:

> So, on the death of The War Criminal, I've been reflecting on the most 
> irritating thing to me about George W Bush's stint: nukular. Sure. 
> It's irritating that he started a war for no good reason. If we learn 
> anything from Kissinger's treatment by the press, it's that those 
> sorts of things don't actually matter.
>
> But the way you pronounce "nuclear"? That matters ... to me, anyway. 
> I've managed to grind off the burrs in my thinking when someone says 
> "axe" instead of "ask", glottals their Ts, etc. But I just can't get 
> over nukular. Every time someone says it that way, whatever it was I 
> was doing or thinking goes straight out the fscking window. With, say, 
> "axe", I can actually do it myself without feeling shame. Same with 
> t-flapping. (And vocal fry.)
>
> Wikipedia gives me a nice list of triggerable attributes of language: 
> metathesis, elision, epenthesis, flapping, assimilation, 
> dissimilation, etc. My request, here, is for examples from anyone that 
> rankle you or that you've overcome. Presumably, the more aware I am 
> with others' struggles with such, the less I'll be triggered by my 
> own.
>
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