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WCDT Oct 11 - Oct 15 (4631-4635)
ihaveavoice:
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Oct 2021, 23:46 ---"Can't I leave a note on the blackboard to prove I read it?"
If you can explain how it works for you with an "uh" sound, I'd be fascinated.
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I meant that the I in cantilever doesn't sound like "eye" in any anglophone accent I know, but yes, there are both Southern and Midwestern US accents that use similar sounds for that letter. There's a particular Midwest one where it'd sound like, "Can't-eh-leave-err note [etc.]?" and in that accent, that sound would make sense as an I. It's the one you may hear used jokingly even by people from outside the region, with a grunt-like, enthusiastic delivery of a sentence that sounds something like, "Mmm-hmm, that's what uh like!" as a random example.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: ihaveavoice on 14 Oct 2021, 01:05 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Oct 2021, 23:46 ---"Can't I leave a note on the blackboard to prove I read it?"
If you can explain how it works for you with an "uh" sound, I'd be fascinated.
--- End quote ---
I meant that the I in cantilever doesn't sound like "eye" in any anglophone accent I know, but yes, there are both Southern and Midwestern US accents that use similar sounds for that letter. There's a particular Midwest one where it'd sound like, "Can't-eh-leave-err note [etc.]?" and in that accent, that sound would make sense as an I. It's the one you may hear used jokingly even by people from outside the region, with a grunt-like, enthusiastic delivery of a sentence that sounds something like, "Mmm-hmm, that's what uh like!" as a random example.
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Rural Midwest, pick a patch either along the Kansas-Missouri boarder or the the Kansas Oklahoma boarder. Or pick somewhere west of Wichita that's smaller than Salina, KS.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, there's some pretty small towns it can be heard in in Nebraska, too. Weirdly, a lot of people from Lincoln, NE and Omaha, NE sound like they're from Oklahoma. The smaller places have what I can best describer as a more tinny rural twang.
Ravenswing:
Alas, Claire might be there for a while.
I spent a few years as an elected library trustee three towns north from Northampton, ironically enough. Pretty much the standard up and down the Valley is that even highly qualified candidates -- Masters in Library Science from top LS schools like Simmons + 20 years of experience -- get by through piecing together two or three part-time gigs: 10 hours a week in this town, 15 hours a week in that town, and yeah, 15 hours a week working out of the field. Someone in Claire's boots -- a recent grad with no work experience beyond internship -- would have to be very lucky to snag one of those gigs. Certainly, with the handful of openings we had in our own library system, her CV wouldn't have gotten her as much as an interview.
A full-time library gig would be out of the question ... at least not in the area in which this comic is set.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Is this why my time machines never work?
( dammit emily )
notStanley:
-snort- Claire & Clinton even fight when they are agreeing about something!
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