<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I don't rankle listening to conversation. It goes against my professional training.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">When I was working for President Carter, however, I couldn't resist correcting him when he said "nukular." I'm also from Georgia, and I understood where that came from. But I don't remember that Jimmy ever got past that. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 8:21\u202fAM glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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.<br>
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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.)<br>
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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.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.<br>Center for Emergent Diplomacy<br><a href="http://emergentdiplomacy.org" target="_blank">emergentdiplomacy.org</a></div><div>Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA</div><div></div><div><br>mobile: (303) 859-5609<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>