From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

F2EP
Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Tuesday, 03 of June, I read your message to Dallas Hinton
about "Hi"

 PQ>> Caps? China cups.  Yes.  I used to have my own (favourite) cup and
 PQ>> saucer in my teenaged years.

 ak>> It is interesting how it sounds in Australia?

 AH> Seems to me Paul was pointing out what I  used  to  call  a  "wrong
 AH> word" error (abbreviated  "w/w"  in  marking  junior  high  school
 AH> compositions.

 AH> When you've made a typo or whatever,  you often  find  it  yourself
 AH> upon further reflection.

   This is not a reflection,  it is an opportunity to  say  a  few  more
English phrases.  It is not easy to find a pretext to say  something  in
the language you learn.

 AH> What I see him doing here is basically what I'd have done in such a
 AH> situation...  i.e.  call attention to the word you used  &  say  "I
 AH> think you mean xxx." If either of us had corrected your spelling in
 AH> accordance with what we thought  you  wanted  to  say  without  any
 AH> further comment you and/or other  readers  might  be  unaware  that
 AH> "cap" is a perfectly good English word too. :-)

   I think everybody  knows  that  there  are  cups  and  caps.  I  just
remembered that Aussies often pronounce "a" in a different way than  the
people in the UK do.  IMHO,  it can  be  heard  when  they  say  "fAce",
"explAin",  "SpAin" etc.  If we put such an "A" in "cap" it would  sound
similar to "cup".  But it was my fantasy.  I read some materials on  the
Australian pronunciation and found out that "cap"  in  Australia  sounds
exactly as "cap" in the UK.

 AH> Vowel sounds may differ  from  one  language  to  another,  and  in
 AH> English they may vary from one dialect to another.  But all of  the
 AH> Aussies I've met in person distinguish between the short "a" &  the
 AH> short "u" just as I would. ;-)

   Yes, short "a"s, like in cap/cup. But when they say "cAse", "bAse" --
"A" sounds differently  IMHO.  Although,  in  Australia,  there  can  be
different dialects.

[...Don't look inside the cake you are eating]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91
fido7.english-tutor 2014 



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